Safe Distance From Dulles Airport

[Anonymous]

What is a safe distance from a major airport? If I buy a house 2.5 mi from Dulles, I am worried I'll be exposing my family to VOC's. If I buy a house further out, say in Lansdowne, I will be 45 min from my job and kids schools. Anyone know the dangers/ risks?

[Anonymous]

Danger is everywhere OP there is no escape.

[Anonymous]

If you do a search online you’ll see research that identifies the 10- mile airport radius as the problem. Look for neighborhoods beyond that radius.

[Anonymous]

There is no place in the entire DC area (or any other large city, for that matter) that is safe for you. None. Zero. You’re asking for the impossible.

[Anonymous]

Montana

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montana

Montana is covered with farms. Have you ever lived near a farm?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you do a search online you’ll see research that identifies the 10- mile airport radius as the problem. Look for neighborhoods beyond that radius.

Jets overfly 90+% of the country. You will never be further than 10 miles from an aircraft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What is a safe distance from a major airport? If I buy a house 2.5 mi from Dulles, I am worried I'll be exposing my family to VOC's. If I buy a house further out, say in Lansdowne, I will be 45 min from my job and kids schools. Anyone know the dangers/ risks?

I'd be more annoyed by noise pollution. In HS I lived less than a mile from BWI and every 10 minutes a plane would rumble overhead. We learned to better secure photos hanging on the walls. It was almost like living at Gravelly Point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you do a search online you’ll see research that identifies the 10- mile airport radius as the problem. Look for neighborhoods beyond that radius.

Jets overfly 90+% of the country. You will never be further than 10 miles from an aircraft.

I'm not sure if you're being intentionally dense?

[Anonymous]

It's hard, OP. And once you factor in being a safe distance from major highways, gas stations, dry cleaners, etc., there are very few places you can live in the DC area!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you do a search online you’ll see research that identifies the 10- mile airport radius as the problem. Look for neighborhoods beyond that radius.

Jets overfly 90+% of the country. You will never be further than 10 miles from an aircraft.

I'm not sure if you're being intentionally dense?

Nope. Just illustrating absurdity by being equally absurd.

People who think they’re being exposed to some kind of hyper lethal pollution by living within 10 miles of an airport need supportive psychiatric care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What is a safe distance from a major airport? If I buy a house 2.5 mi from Dulles, I am worried I'll be exposing my family to VOC's. If I buy a house further out, say in Lansdowne, I will be 45 min from my job and kids schools. Anyone know the dangers/ risks?

How come all the people who work at the airport- ground crew, mechanics, gate agents, baggage handlers, food service, aircrews, pilots… everyone - how come they’re not dying by the millions every year? They’re a lot closer to jet exhaust than anyone living near an airport.

[Anonymous]

Me, Googling “VOC”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What is a safe distance from a major airport? If I buy a house 2.5 mi from Dulles, I am worried I'll be exposing my family to VOC's. If I buy a house further out, say in Lansdowne, I will be 45 min from my job and kids schools. Anyone know the dangers/ risks?

How come all the people who work at the airport- ground crew, mechanics, gate agents, baggage handlers, food service, aircrews, pilots… everyone - how come they’re not dying by the millions every year? They’re a lot closer to jet exhaust than anyone living near an airport.

Nobody is tracking their health over the course of 20 years. But we have tracked employees working at golf courses and working in dry cleaners and farms and we do know they are more likely to have health problems.

[Anonymous]

I suspect that the 45 minute commute will be far worse for your health than being around the airplanes landing at Dulles. Car exhaust on the toll road? Risk of accidents? I'll take the low concentration of jet fuel exhaust any day.

Noise is a valid concern, though. Check your location relative to both ends of the runway. If possible, visit one day when the winds are out of the north and another day that the winds are out of the south - flights will be going the other direction. Take-offs are much louder than landings.