EMF's at a school

[celtic]

Agreement could avert Fredon, NJ school closing


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FREDON -- Students at the Fredon School, scheduled to close in three weeks because of officials' concerns about elevated electromagnetic-field levels at the school, could be forced to attend classes in separate locations, the school superintendent said today.

The high EMF levels were found on the current 230-kilovolt line as the district and Fredon Parents Against the Lines (PALS) were negotiating during the summer with Public Service Electric & Gas about its plans to add a 500-kilovolt line from Susquehanna, Pa., to Roseland in Essex County to the line, school officials have said.

They said the elevated EMF levels could pose a long-term health risk to students and the school's 70 staff members, and want PSE&G, the state's largest utility, to move the lines farther from the school.


JCP&L has denied the lines are carrying elevated EMF levels and questioned the scientific link between high EMF levels and health risks, including leukemia in children.

 

[wirenut1980]

So, what are the measured EMF levels inside and outside the school? I have a hard time believing the transmission lines are causing EMF levels as high as the school is claiming. I suspect internal wiring errors causing EMF inside the school.

 

[ghostbuster]

Our group has measured many school properties.The article states 19 mg. in the playground nearest the lines.
This is typical,some other schools we have measured have levels greater 300 mg.

 

[Mr. Bill]

This is the most detailed report I've seen relating EMF exposure to children.
http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/index.htm

While new ELF limits are being developed and implemented, a reasonable approach would be a 1 mG planning limit for habitable space adjacent to all new or upgraded power lines and a 2 mG limit for all other new construction, It is also recommended for that a 1 mG limit be established for existing habitable space for children and/or women who are pregnant.

19 mG sounds very high after this report.

 

[cthfield3]

I have measured E fields of power lines by my house and you have to be very close to the lines in order for the readings to be high. I do not know about the studies of E field effects on people, but I do know that the E field measured close to 10,000 v/m almost right under the lines (less than 50' away). Of course the further away you are, the less the magnitude. At about 200 ft, the measurement was 80 v/m; at 100 ft, 940 v/m and at 75 ft it was 3300 v/m.