Rooms at the Westhampton, N.Y. library used by children and seniors touched off high microwave readings on an Acoustimeter.

This reporter yesterday toured the two floors of the library and found peak readings of six volts per meter in the first floor room used once a month by the library board, weekly by a bridge group, and which is used for many other purposes.

A reading of six volts, highest possible on the meter, was found in the rom. It is what would be found near a cell tower, says the user manual of EMFields Solutions.

Those with electro-magnetic sensitivity experience “adverse health effects” if volts per meter exceed .30, says EMF Fields.

Also high in the board meeting room were average microwatts per square meter which were in the 2,500 to 5,000 range.

Bioinitiative in 2007 set 1,000 as the maximum allowable in a public area but in 2012 lowered this to 5 meaning it thought just about any constant pulsed microwave radiation background in a public place was unacceptable.

Several services are available that would measure the radiation in the library including healthydwellings.

Tom Moore, president of the Weshampton Free Library, who is the husband of Mayor Maria Moore, said in a statement earlier this year that the library is in full compliance with radiation standards set by the Federal Communications Commission.

No Place in Library had “Green” Readings

High voltage and microwatts per square meter readings were found in the teenage room on the first floor opposite the board meeting room and in the children’s area on the second floor.

Children, because of thinner skulls and smaller bodies, are especially at risk from radiation, said a panel May 3 in Baltimore that included EMF health advocate Devra Davis.

The most complete overview of radiation threats is in a 54-part essay by Camilla Rees of Electromagnetichealth.org.

No place in the library resulted in a “green” reading on the voltage meter which is the point where “most people with ES “do not experience significant adverse health effects.”

The readings were in the “red” zone on the Acoustimeter’s voltage/meter scale. Readings below .30 receive a yellow rating and those below .05 receive a green reading.

The RF meter model AM-10 measures frequency response from 200 Megahertz to 8 Gigahertz.

Library Director Waskiewicz Absent

We went to the library shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday (Friday) and was told that library directory Danielle Waskiewicz had gone home.

The Acoustimeter readings were shown to several people in the board meeting room and we expressed astonishment at the 6-volts that were recorded, saying this represented a hazardous situation especially for library employees who are subjected to the radiation throughout the day.

The people in the room listened to us and looked at the Acoustimeter but did not have an immediate reaction. We handed out our business cards and told them we have 300+ stories on microwave radiation on the O’Dwyer website.

We showed the Acoustimeter readings to a library staffer but she said that the subject was not something she could get involved in. We said her health was something that she should be involved in.

We "Bothered" Patrons

A library employee approached us after a few minutes and said we were bothering patrons of the library and asked us to stop doing whatever we were doing.

The library has no materials whatever on the dangers of pulsed microwave radiation. The Library of Paris, biggest in France, removed all Wi-Fi from its buildings in 2008. This was sought by the library staff since it was enduring the radiation throughout the day.

Haifa, the third largest city in Israel, shut down Wi-Fi in all its schools last month after a half-hour TV program showed the dangers of radiation from numerous sources including cellphones; cell towers; computers that do not have a wired Ethenet connection, mouse and keyboard; high-powered industrial-level routers in classrooms, and radiation from wireless utility meters.

Request Made for EEEA Deal

While in Westhampton Beach we also went to the office of Mayor Maria Moore and delivered a copy of our Freedom of Information request to see the agreement with the East End Eruv Assn. that the WHB trustees may sign at their meeting June 2.

We asked to see Mayor Moore but Maureen Jones, her assistant, said Moore was in a meeting.

We have asked Moore for a copy of the agreement which WHB had indicated it will adopted at the June 2 meeting. Lawyers who have read the EEEA deal with Southampton have said that such an agreement would put WHB in a very bad bargaining position should there be a disagreement of some type in the future.

SH agreed that the lechi markers attached to utility poles are “not signs” and that the “erection of the eruv is not an unconstitutional establishment of religion under the First Amendment.”

Opponents of eruvim, which include about 95% of WHB residents according to previous Mayor Conrad Teller, say both statements are false.

Lechis cannot only be seen by someone who looks closely at utility poles, but the eruv of the Hampton Synagogue in WHB is depicted in color and detail on the Synagogue’s website as are eruvim throughout the U.S. An eruv, if officially adopted in WHB, will be publicized far and wide, say opponents and will therefore be highly visible.

The key element of an eruv is that the local government must approve of it. That is why the EEEA has gone to such lengths to wring this out of SH, Quogue and now WHB.

Residents say it’s common sense that placing religious symbols permanently on utility poles is a violation of the First Amendment and cite legal opinions by law professors Alexandra Susman of UCLA Law School and Marci Hamilton of Yeshiva University that support that view.

Injunction Could be Sought

Opponents of the WHB eruv are exploring obtaining an injunction to prevent the June 2 meeting from passing the deal with EEEA.

Lawyers have advised that subject matter must be “serious” for an injunction to be obtained but the opponents of the eruv say that the breach of the Constitution that would take place is certainly serious.

They could argue that the Moore administration has withheld details of the agreement from the public as well as the press and never had a “town hall” on the subject despite arguments about it that have raged since 2008.

The local Federal Court would be asked to order delay of any vote on the agreement until after the WHB election June 17 and after a town hall on the matter.

Lawyers say those asking for an injunction may have to post a bond.

Supreme Court Against "New" Symbols

Proponents of seeking an injunction say that legal moves are the only thing that WHB officials will respond to. Criticisms and requests by citizens and the press are ignored, they point out. The lawyers challenge threats by the EEEA to dump "millions" of fines and court costs on WHB, saying those threats are "pure fiction." Attempts to collect anything from WHB for defending the Constitutional separation of church and state could result in the Supreme Court taking up the issue, they said.

The Court's decisions on religious symbols in public places are that long-standing symbols such as the Ten Commandments on a public building are permissable but not permissible would be currently placing such symbols on a buildling. This would make the proposed eruv in WHB impermissable since it is something new, say eruv opponents. No other religion in WHB has anything permanent on village property, they note. Markings for Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, etc., are all temporary, they say.

Rise in Autism Found

Retired Canadian Army Captain Jerry Flynn says there has been an “explosion in autism” in children in Canada that appears to mirror the explosion in wireless technology.

He wrote May 22 to Prime Minister Justine Trudeau and members of the Canadian Parliament that the rate of autism in children in the U.S. was one in 25,000 before 1970.

In 1970, he said, it had climbed to one in 2,500; in 2000, one in 150, in 2004, one in 125, in 2008, one in 88, and in 2013, one in 50 and one in 27 in populated cities.

Quoted are statistics compiled by the Australian ADHD Foundation.

Asks Flynn: “Why does no one connect today’s tragic explosion in Autism in children with the comparable explosion in wireless technology? Each and every wireless device emits hazardous ‘low-level, pulsed, non-thermal radio/microwave frequency radiation.’”

He includes cellphones, wireless utility meters, wireless computers, cordless phones, GPS satellites and cellphone towers. They never “shut off,” he said.

“Tragically,” he said, “for all Canadians, the Government of Canada refuses any dialogue whatsoever on pulsed non-thermal wireless radiation, which scientists have long linked to Autism and a host of other neurological diseases, as well as diseases of the central nervous system and immune system.”

People and politicians need to realize that the non-thermal radiation, while invisible, is “cumulative,” said Flynn, who notes that Google has plans to launch 200,000 Wi-Fi balloons at 62,500 feet under a program called “Project Loon.”

Space X plans 4,000 satellites 750 miles high.

OneWeb says it will hoist 648 satellites, drones and lasers.

Outernet plans low orbit microsatellites.

Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (GUARDS) has a website with descriptions of health and environmental hazards of high-altitude radiation for commercial purposes.

“Virtually the entire global population will be irradiated non-stop by 2020 whether they like it or not,” says Flynn, who spent 22 years in its “Electronic Warfare” unit.