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The Naples Songbird
The Naples songbird that we all hear starting early in the
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morning and continuing until the afternoon has an ear piercing
damaging sound. You say “ What are you talking about ?” I’m Volume 17 • Issue 6 • August-September-October 2026
talking about the gasoline “two-stroke engine" that powers
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everywhere in our City. Naples, FL 34109
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Is there a better way to do this job?
My answer is, yes, I think so.
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Let’s look at some reasons to make that change. Nature
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gases that can produce smog and harm humans were on average
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BENZENE, a carcinogenic pollutant found in each cubic
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contains 60,000 times the safe level of exposure. Studies have
shown low frequency noise has great penetrating power. It
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One acoustic study showed that in a densely populated publisher. Life in Naples regrets that no responsibility can be
neighborhood, a gas powered blower rated at 75 decibels of noise accepted for unsolicited material.
can affect up to 15 times as many houses as a battery powered Opinions expressed by contributors or advertisers are not
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blower with the same 75 decibel rating. As I spend time around
our City, a friendly cup of coffee in the morning with friends or
talking over lunch, the noise created by the “Naples Songbird”
comes up more than occasionally.
publisher Reg Buxton
The items referenced in this article originated in an article
written by James Fallows in the interested in advertising Call Reg: 239.572.0051
April issue of Atlantic Magazine. It is well worth reading and
sets forth a solution to a problem that affects citizens just like contributing writers Bill Barnett
Sandra Lee Buxton
you and me.
Lois Bolin
This column was first run in April of 2019 and has become
Jeff Lytle
prescient in light of a recent senate bill. Florida Senate bill
Paula Allia
SB290 prevents communities and municipalities from adopting
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or enforcing local rules that restrict or ban gas-powered farm or
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