Boulder County and Superior filed suit Tuesday against Jefferson County, claiming the owner of the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport has created a “public nuisance” by not doing more …
Charlene Willey watches a plane fly over her home in Westminster on Monday, June 26, 2023. Willey, who built the home with her late husband in 1994, said that as the area has grown so has the amount of traffic at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. , claiming the owner of the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport has created a “public nuisance” by not doing more to reduce noise pollution and lead contamination from planes flying over nearby neighborhoods.
“Jefferson County’s decision not to prohibit touch-and-go operations by piston-engine aircraft that overfly Plaintiffs’ residents constitutes a continuing public nuisance because such operations — which materially increase each year — unreasonably damage the safety, health and welfare of Plaintiffs’ residents,” the lawsuit reads.
But Cassie Pearce, a spokeswoman for Jefferson County, said in a statement that the county cannot legally order a reduction in touch-and-go operations at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport. sued Jefferson County on the claim that flights from the airport posed a hazard to their health and devalued their homes.
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