"They claim there will not be this big sound impact, but I think it will be a huge impact," Hancock said. George and Washington County officials plan to build by 2006. The land just south of the Hancocks' home is the chosen site for a $92 million regional airport the city of St. What concerns her is the thought of large passenger jets taking off and landing in the same location. Mitchell makes enough noise of his own riding his ATV up and down the dirt-rock driveway and off into the neighboring brush. "This whole valley here is a sound bowl," she concedes.īut Hancock has no complaints with the occasional dirt bike. The sound is miles away, and its exact source cannot be seen, even from the majestic heights of Hancock's abode. It is the droning of a dirt bike or some other all-terrain vehicle carrying its owner to no place in particular. Not a fly or mosquito - nothing so easily squashed. The serene, undisturbed landscape that fills Hancock's vision each day is almost unimaginable to residents of crowded subdivisions along the Wasatch Front.īut on this afternoon, as Hancock stands in the front yard and talks with her young son, Mitchell, she is annoyed by a persistent buzzing sound. High atop a ridge, the front door opens to a southward view of the valley floor, an undeveloped area south of Washington Fields. WASHINGTON CITY, Washington County - Susan Hancock's home is built where, in a different country, you might expect to find a castle.
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