The strength of electromagnetic radiation decreases with the square of the distance from the source.

Holding a cell phone right next to your brain may not prove to be such a wise decision. Cellular antennas 70' in the air would seem at much safer distance.

In any event, ask the antenna company for some real world data:

- What is the exposure from a cell phone held against your ear?
- What is the exposure to a ground-level person from the antennas T-Mobile proposes to hang from a tower 70' in the air?
- What is the exposure from the power lines on the street in front of your house (they emit electromagnetic radiation, too)?
- What is the exposure from a TV set?
- What is the exposure from the electrical wiring in the walls of a house (especially right next to the headboard of a child's bed)?
- Is there a documented history of cancer or other pathology in the technicians who service cellular antennas. It would be significant if they are working directly on them at full power without the benefit of distance and without suffering a spike in illness. An unusual incidence of health problems among such technicians would be a cause for alarm.

If any community is or should be one of science vs. ill-informed conjecture, it is MP. Let's ask the questions and act in accordance with the real risks - not imagined ones.

And what's the chance there's a bomb in my underwear, but it's likely I'll be searched the next time I travel by air. As a neighbor living in close proximity to Nealon Park, I would like answers from reliable sources to the questions of exposure to these rather powerful electric fields. I think there could be MANY better places to plant these things than in this area of fairly high residential density and community use.

marjorie

This is HARDLY the first cell tower erected in the USA, and your question has been answered time and time again in cities all over the USA.

The towers pose no threat to your health, and it's been proven before.

In fact, your health CANNOT be considered as part of the approval process......it's the law.

I don't want them in my back yard; do you? NO CELL TOWER IN NEALON PARK, NO CELL TOWER IN NEALON PARK, NO CELL TOWER IN NEALON PARK - THREE TIMES FOR THREE TOWERS.

NO CELL TOWERS IN NEALON PARK.

Nealon Park Resident:

why don't you want a tower there?

There are very real and documented health impacts of living or working within close proximity to cell towers. The International Association of Fire Fighters has taken a strong stand against these facilities being located on fire houses, after fire fighters living in fire houses with cell towers on them started developing health problems, including slow response times, headaches, and other cognitive problems- not characteristics you want to have in your first responders! The details of their resolution is here:

Web Link

T-Mobile could not have chosen a worse location for this tower, adjacent to a nursery school, a senior center, a ball field and dense housing. The land is owned by the City of Menlo Park so contact your city council and ask that they tell T-Mobile NO WAY!

You can e-mail the whole council at: city.council@menlopark.org

If anyone wants to obtain info about the adverse impacts of Cell Towers, from reducing property values to adverse health consequences, go to AntiCellTowerLawyers.com, and go to their "Links" and "Questions and Answers" pages. I too once thought that they "must" be safe, or the FCC wouldn't permit them. Then I learned how most other coutries (other than the U.S.) have banned or moved to ban them from near schools, and the reasons why. Before you are quick to assert that there are no health consequences, visit the pages, then form your own opinion.