Friday, August 16, 2013

saukvalley.com | Residents sue over wind farm in Lee County in Dixon IL, Sterling, IL and Rock Falls IL

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BY DAVID GIULIANI dgiuliani@saukvalley.com

The lawsuit said the wind farm is incompatible with surrounding land uses. The project, it said, will decrease property values, destroy views, create shadow flicker and “incessant and annoying” noise, and hurt wildlife.

The lawsuit identified what the landowners consider procedural errors leading up to the county’s approval of the special-use permits for the project.

The company, for instance, failed to provide a turbine layout, a noise model, or a plan for how it would decommission abandoned turbines, the lawsuit said.

Mainstream’s materials also lacked a certificate from a registered professional engineer that the tower design is sufficient to withstand wind load requirements, according to the lawsuit

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