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Taking Any and All Steps

Representatives of Stony Creek Brewery (SCB) met with Pat Dugan and others from her group, "Turn it Down!," and provided data showing noise levels from its music events are within the applicable noise level regulations and statutes. In March, June, and recent letters to The Sound, the complaints about noise levels after music events have been inaccurate and misinformed. The alleged noise levels from these events have been proper, the police presence was fully paid for by SCB, and no event by SCB this season has been overcapacity. SCB has approval from the Town of Branford Fire Marshal for all of its music events.

Among other things, SCB has hired two professional sound engineers, noise measurements are taken before and during each music event, and SCB has also re-angled the event stage, pointing speakers towards the building.

The applicable noise regulations and statutes require a certain expert methodology for properly measuring noise levels. Noise measurements taken on an iPhone from a back porch are simply not reliable.

Elevated noise, such as trucks or motorcycles driving over Indian Neck Bridge (which happens scores of times during a music event), is considered impulse noise. Impulse noises cause momentary spikes during any noise reading and cause an otherwise compliant music event to appear suddenly non-compliant. Fleeting impulse noises are not relevant to a proper noise measurement and explain why the Branford Police Department noise readings showed momentary elevated impulse noise readings at random times during the recent SCB music event.

SCB prides itself on being an excellent corporate citizen of the Town of Branford and is committed to taking any and all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure its music events comply with all regulations while it serves the public.

Ed Crowley

Branford

Ed Crowley is the owner of Stony Creek Brewery.