The Noble community in Rock Spring, Georgia is being transformed by Audia Plastic's invasively loud blowers which have turned our natural wooded environment into an industrial atmosphere detrimental to our health, local wildlife, and property values. Audia is directly behind Emerald Acres which is a lower to mid-range income subdivision - an easy target for manufacturing plant sites because it's assumed that we won't fight back. 

We are fighting back and demanding Audia to install a complete sound-proofing system to restore our community back to health.

Audia's cooling blowers run night and day for days on end with infrequent pauses and have continued to get louder over the years in spite of pressure from locals. I reached out to manager Mike Pattison many times over the course of several months asking for a solution or that he at least drive in front of my home to hear the noise level, which he never did. He claimed to have ordered a muffler of some sort but the noise continues to get louder and more constant (sometimes requiring earplugs at night). I personally avoid my porch, front yard and neighborhood walks when the blowers are blasting full force.

Harvard Medicine points out the dangers of noise pollution in a 2022 article: https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/noise-and-health

"Researchers and clinicians ..... have shown that noise pollution not only drives hearing loss, tinnitus, and hypersensitivity to sound, but can cause or exacerbate cardiovascular disease; type 2 diabetes; sleep disturbances; stress; mental health and cognition problems, including memory impairment and attention deficits; childhood learning delays; and low birth weight. Scientists are investigating other possible links, including to dementia."

If Noble residents do not act now, we risk allowing Audia to transform our neighborhood and community into one that no one wants to live in. Audia will continue to exercise the freedom they've enjoyed so far: They have room to expand operations which would increase noise levels and further downgrade our community, health, property values, and the basic enjoyment of our homes.