The sound of the creek was another subtlety the design program could not help her with, though it had addressed environmental noise abatement.

After some Internet research on noise abatement, he came away with one idea: creating a second noise to distract from the first.

The runway closure recommendation is based on safety, noise abatement and the cost of upkeep.

Final design of the station, including analyzing 26 nearby homes for noise abatement, was expected to be completed in the middle of 2012.

This solution provides the same noise abatement and is more pleasing visually, but requires about 100 feet of land adjoining the road.

The police have the responsibility for noise abatement and nuisance control.

"Today, we have a whole department and they get involved in everything - construction, industrial development, noise abatement."

She and about 35 others have begun an group to explore noise abatement and to create an experimental quiet zone.

Consequently noise abatement is in the interests of industry.

General advancements in noise abatement have also had an effect.