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Yorkville hires engineering firm to address air pollution concerns from data centers · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville hires engineering firm to address air pollution concerns from
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  Speaker 1: data centers. Written by Joey Weslow, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: After several residents expressed concerns of air pollution potentially coming
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  Speaker 1: from new data centers, the City of Yorkville approved an
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  Speaker 1: agreement for consulting services to review the matter. The ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars retainer fee and master agreement with the engineering
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  Speaker 1: firm terra Con is for assistance in reviewing air pollution questions.
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  Speaker 1: All costs will be covered by the data center developers.
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  Speaker 1: The city previously approved a noise pollution study that accounts
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  Speaker 1: for a cumulus noise effect coming from several data centers
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  Speaker 1: at once. Given the recent public discussion about air quality
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  Speaker 1: and emission concerns, the city felt it was reasonable to
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  Speaker 1: have a similar arrangement as Soundscape regarding noise concerns for
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  Speaker 1: air quality and emissions questions. City Administrator bart Olsen said
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  Speaker 1: in city documents. Terracan has been used by the city
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  Speaker 1: for several years on downtown environmental remediation projects, including brownfield
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  Speaker 1: initiatives and pollution cleanup Olsen said Terracan has staff on
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  Speaker 1: site ready to answer questions about air quality. Pioneer Development LLC,
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  Speaker 1: developers of the one thousand thirty seven acre project Cardinal
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  Speaker 1: Data Center project, have said very limited air pollution is
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  Speaker 1: expected to come from their data centers. All air quality
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  Speaker 1: and emissions regulations for data centers and diesel generators are
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  Speaker 1: handled at the state and federal level. The city does
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  Speaker 1: enforce its own noise pollution ordinances. Several residents have expressed
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  Speaker 1: concerns that the city's noise pollution studies did not include
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  Speaker 1: the ten to twenty years of expected conscers production for
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  Speaker 1: the data center warehouses. The city is exploring more than
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  Speaker 1: a dozen data center plans across around three thousand acres
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  Speaker 1: in the El Domain corridor. The city did not say
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  Speaker 1: how such large construction sites over such a lengthy period
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  Speaker 1: of time would affect air pollution for surrounding residential areas
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  Speaker 1: near the city's new data center Alley