The recent activities at a school in Ripon, California toward a Sprint tower and its perceived
cancer-causing RF emissions have gotten traction with parents across the country, having
been cited in zoning meetings in Aurora, Colorado and Germantown, Tennessee as reported
by Inside Towers. Four students and three teachers at the Weston Elementary School have
been diagnosed with cancer. The backlash has been strong enough for Sprint to agree to
remove the tower.
“We do understand and respect the views of the community. We’re committed to being good
neighbors,” Adrienne Norton of Sprint Corporate Communications said last week. Although
Norton added, “It’s actually operating at less than one percent, hundreds of times below federal
limits.”
The Ripon Unified School District, in response to the claims, has had the site tested twice over
the past two years with results backing Sprint’s claim and showing the tower well under FCC
standards. The latest study by William Hammett, P.E. of Hammett & Edison, a consulting
engineering firm in San Francisco, concluded the following in late January of this year:
“The measurement equipment used was a Wandel & Goltermann Type EMR-300 Radiation
Meter with Type 18 Isotropic Electric Field Probe (Serial No. C-0010). The meter and probe
were under current calibration by the manufacturer. The maximum observed power density
level for a person at ground near the site was 0.000032 mW/cm2, which is 0.016% of the
most restrictive public limit. The three-dimensional perimeter of RF levels equal to the public
exposure limit did not reach any publicly accessible areas.”
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