Milestone Communications, the leading developer of
wireless towers in partnership with school and government landowners, has been working alongside the school board
officials of Anne Arundel County to construct a cell phone tower at the Piney
Orchard Elementary School in Odenton, MD. State Senator Jim Rosapepe and State
Delegates Barbara Frush, Joseline A. Peńa-Melnyk, and Ben Barnes asked the
Board of Education to terminate the 2012 lease with Milestone Communications.
The members
of this community have started the Anne Arundel County Against Cell Towers at Schools to collectively voice their opposition regarding cell sites being built
on school property. The group’s mission statement explains, “We are a community advocacy
organization that is opposed to constructing cell phone towers on Anne Arundel
County school properties.”
This group
of concerned residents believes that the radio frequencies emitted from the
cell towers will have adverse health effects on the nearby students; even
though the FCC, the American Cancer Society, and the World Health Organization
have found no causal link between cell tower radio frequencies emissions and
negative health effects.
One group
members, Jen Beers, said that her and her husband would consider moving if the
cell tower project continues. “For
the long term, my child would never go to that school,” said Beers, the parent
of one child at the school. “It’s not the Board of Education’s place to go and
make deals that force people to make life decisions they weren’t planning on
making.” (Source: Capital Gazette)
Milestone Communications has followed the federal
regulations when creating the plans for this cell phone towers and they have
followed the guidelines to regulate the amount of exposure so it is much less
than anything that could cause health problems.
Milestone Communications has plans to construct
several cell phone towers at school sites throughout Anne Arundel County, with
the first at Piney Orchard Elementary. But a company spokesman said no request
for a construction permit has been filed.
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