'As a former GA Braun employee I can relate to some of the noises that you're referring to. Some of GA Braun's newer machines are incredibly loud. So loud that they sound like jet engines. It must seem like you're living next to an airport at times. Especially when they're all running at the same time.
good luck with your fight.-Internet Supporter
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Key PeopleWho is behind the Bates Troy noise? Brian Kradjian, Ara Kradjian, Tom Singe and Randy Widrick.
Bates Troy is not a clean neighbor. They are an industrial dry-cleaning plant located inches from the nearest multi-unit residential apartment building. They produce excessive and disgusting dry cleaning odors that waft through peoples yards and into open windows. The smell is unhealthy.
For residents surronding Bates Troy's expansion, the facts are obvious: an industrial dry-cleaning plant is a blight on our community. A clean neighbor is the elderly retiree who keeps their yard neat not the dry cleaner bringing in semi trucks all hours of the day.
If Bates Troy is not a clean neighbor now, were they a clean neighbor in the past? No. Bates Troy previously used a cancer causing dry-cleaning chemical called PERC. And, on February 2nd 1993, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation's Spill Incidents Database Bates Troy deliberately spilled an unknown quantity of solvents into the sewer. This is the sewer flows into our rivers.
Bates Troy has not been a clean neighbor in the past and they are not a clean neighbor now.
There is only one solution to the Bates Troy noise problem: the City of Binghamton must enforce their preexisting laws. We are currently circulating a petition and we encourage you to sign it. At the moment, our only hope of restoring the quiet is this petition.
90 second background summary on the Bates Troy issue (click here if video doesn't appear):
Bates Troy attempts bribery to stop this campaign (click here if video doesn't appear):