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Dear Editor:
Carmel’s municipal online accounts payable file indicates the city just paid $122,000 of its $374,500 bill for sound suppression.
This is a welcome improvement. The less noise from City Hall, the better.
Unfortunately, the $374,500 is needed to buy an effective muffler for the $238,500 chiller. The cool politicos needed a chiller to make ice for a rink two months out of the year and provide air conditioning for the under-engineered Palladium and City Hall, itself.
When first installed, the $238,500 chiller made so much racket that $30,000 was spent on a big blanket to quiet the thing. It didn’t do the job. The city, itself, was violating its own noise ordinance (the city’s own court found unenforceable, by the way).
Ineptitude on this scale is truly wondrous to behold.
Cool.
Bill Shaffer
Carmel
It is sad. First they put in the undersized cooling system and have to rent a chiller each summer. Now they put up this noisy thing. Didn’t the engineer know how loud most screw compressors are? Plainfield can tell him from experience. Now they have spend a bundle to quiet this sucker down, even with all the noise reduction, 200 tons or whatever it is won’t be quiet next door. I volunteer at the Civic Theatre across the drive, took years to get the controls right so the place is comfortable.