Encyclopedia Dubuque
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NOISE ABATEMENT
NOISE ABATEMENT. In February 1979, Lucy Connor became Dubuque's community noise counselor. Raising the community's awareness, Connor began in the schools working to increase students' awareness of the health problems, including heart disease and ulcers associated with loud noise.
Connor convinced the city to post six signs reminding people to avoid creating loud noise and businesses to operate their vehicles on routes that avoided residential neighborhoods. The effectiveness of the program was seen in the issuance by the police department, during the first six months of 1982, of five hundred citations for violations of Dubuque's noise ordinance. This was compared to a similar number over the previous three years. The position would be eliminated at the end of September 1982, when the federal government would no longer fund the office of Noise Abatement and Control.