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Article: Noise Limits Are Reevaluated in Va.; Issue Raised by the Sounds of Growth in Caroline County
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- The Washington Post
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- October 31, 2004
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If the way a soldier maintains his weapon is any indicator of how
seriously he takes the fight, observe Caroline County Sheriff Tony
Lippa with his decimeter:
"I don't even really know how this thing works. We just found it
in some closet this week and put some batteries into it," Lippa said,
examining the gray, palm-size device used to measure noise levels.
No one in this county south of Fredericksburg can remember anybody
being charged with a noise violation in the roughly 20 years the
ordinance has been in place, which may account for Lippa's blase
attitude. But growth in the Washington and Richmond areas is
literally having reverberations midway between them.
Caroline officials say ...