Fun Facts about Boulder Airport
How Valuable is Airport land?
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The airport property is extremely valuable.
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Who Does the airport serve?
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The number of Boulder residents served by Boulder Airport number is .4% of the population of Boulder.
The majority of services provided by Boulder airport goes to non-Boulder residents. Most Boulder residents will never use the airport. |
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What does it cost to host the airport?
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The vast majority of airport support comes from taxpayer subsidies.
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Does the city get revenue from the airport?
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The airport provides very little direct revenue to the city.
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What Pollution does the airport generate?
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The airport is a constant, ongoing creator of noise, carbon, particulates, and lead dust.
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what about leaded fuel?
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Multiple peer reviewed studies have shown that people living within 2 miles of a regional airport are exposed to toxic lead dust.
Even tiny amounts of lead can permanently impact a child’s ability, potential and future earnings. Many Boulder city and county residents and businesses live within two miles of Boulder Airport, including schools and day care centers. |
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Who bears the pollution from boulder airport?
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Boulder airport creates a huge environmental equity issue.
The airport is an unacceptable source of lead pollution and noise adjacent to schools, playgrounds, recreational fields, Valmont Park, open spaces and family homes, including two mobile home parks. County residents bear a widely disproportional amount of pollution from Boulder airport, yet have no representation. |
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See Unveiling the Health Impacts of Leaded Fuel for maps showing distances from Boulder airport.
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WHO governs the airport?
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Due to taking FAA grants, the FAA "governs" the airport.
In practice, the aviation industry decides what happens at Boulder airport. |
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In this day of highly constrained budgets, environmental inequality, and climate change disasters, many Boulder residents have come to see the Boulder airport as a relic from a bygone era.
Dear Boulder Airport, it was a good run, but now it's time to move on.
Dear Boulder Airport, it was a good run, but now it's time to move on.