Cellular towers impact wildlife and migratory birds.

The Connecticut Audubon Society’s Osprey Nation program ended its 2026 season with its worst breeding success ever.

There are 3 osprey nesting sites within close proximity to the proposed cell tower at 10 Grote Road. Chester Eco Alliance opposes the proposed environmentally sensitive location bordering Chester Creek Preserve, Chester Creek and the Connecticut River.

Communication towers have a potentially significant impact on wildlife, especially migratory birds. The US Fish and Wildlife Service  routinely reviews proposed communication projects and provides recommendations, one of which is to "avoid siting towers in or near known bird concentration areas."

Migratory birds are a federal trust resource responsibility, and the Service considers migratory bird concentration areas environmentally significant. Bird concentration areas include traditional migratory flight corridors (ridges, shorelines, river valleys) rookeries and other bird breeding areas; stopover, staging, or resting areas,large bodies of water, wetlands, forests, and natural grasslands, wildlife preserves and seasonal flight paths 

Communication towers pose a collision hazard to birds in flight, especially some 350 species of night-migrating birds. Cumulatively, communication towers kill an estimated four to five million birds per year nationwide.