Indian Hills Elementary School is not only a dangerous place for radiation-emitting equipment, it is also a relatively poor location for connectivity.  Relocating the antenna to a different location that is a meaningfully safe distance from schools and homes is essential to the health, safety, and even property values of our neighborhood.

We need your help. In May of 2020, a new cellular antenna was erected on top of Indian Hills Elementary. This is a bad location for three important reasons:

1. There is an ever-growing list of both confirmed and potential health risks from radiation exposure, including the big “C” (cancer). 
2. The residential roof mount location directs the main beam of high power radiation directly into many adjacent homes.
3. It does not address neighborhood connectivity and call dropping issues. 

The antenna’s location was selected exclusively for the cost and convenience of the cell operator, not because it was safe or ideal for call quality. The cell networks are leveraging the school’s infrastructure, namely power and access, to deploy their service with zero concern for known and potential health and environmental risk to children at the school or living in nearby homes. This cellular site is more than anything else, cheap, fast, and easy for the cell operator.  Safer and better locations are available but they require additional investment upfront and ongoing maintenance from the cellular network owners, something they can easily cover. 

How many hard cases of corporate profits and shareholder dividends being placed ahead of children, families, and communities, must we suffer before this type of short-sighted corporate behavior is no longer an issue?

Help protect your community and send yet another message to large corporations that you will not stand by while they prioritize profits over people! 

Here are 3 reasons to sign this petition right now:

• We don’t know the true danger: The growing body of scientific evidence and studies points to health risks and side-effects from non-ionizing radiation, but the full extent of the actual health and human safety is still unknown 
• This is not an experiment: Children, teachers, and neighbors should not be involuntary test subjects for any controllable health risk, especially one that is likely to be associated with a life-threatening disease such as cancer
• Cost isn’t everything: This site is not ideal, it is a poor location. This cell site was only selected to keep cell operator costs down, with no regard for safety and that's not OK. 

Your community is mobilizing to have this cellular site decommissioned. Multiple families living near Indian Hills Elementary have been building a body of information and sharing resources. The group has met with Salt Lake City School District, Salt Lake City School Board, Salt Lake City School Community Council, and Salt Lake City Council Members to better understand the history, current situation, and alternative options for the location of this cellular site. The group has compiled an extensive body of both National and International research on the health and environmental effects of radiation emitted by cellular antenna sites. 

We would love to discuss this at length with you. A Next Door Group has been established to facilitate the sharing of research and to discuss ongoing efforts. 

Our mission is to make this neighborhood, especially near the elementary school, a safe place for you to live for many years to come. Lack of safety in our neighborhood and at our schools, whether from blunt trauma or from long term physical damage is simply unacceptable.

Please sign this petition and help us stand up to T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and their partners.

To learn more about the dangers of cell phone tower radiation review this presentation and follow the source links to a world of research and information.