Sample Letter to JCP&L About Floodlights and Streetlights

Date

Mr. Stephen E. Morgan
President, Jersey Central Power & Light
300 Madison Avenue			
Morristown, NJ 079620-1911

Re: Objectionable Electric Utility Floodlights & Streetlights

Dear President Morgan:

     I would like to bring to your attention JCP&L floodlight(s) installed at the locations indicated below.  I find these lights objectionable because they cause unnecessary glare and light spillage.  Please arrange to have these   inappropriately installed floodlight(s) corrected by adding visors and or making repositioning adjustments.

     The State Tariff authorizing the electric utility floodlight service states: "This servie is also not available where, in the Company's judgement, it may be objectionable to others, or where, having been installed, it is objectionable to others."

     There does not appear to be any procedure within JCP&L for making such floodlight corrections.  Perhaps an electric utility point of contact, a telephone number and a format could be established for the public to register their complaints.  If these floodlights were competently installed following the recommendations of the IESNA to avoid unnecessary glare, there would be no need for these corrections to be made.

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     This may be an appropriate time to also bring to your attention the non-cutoff Utility streetlights that also cause unnecessary glare The use of full cutoff streetlights would avoid this problem as explained in an article titled “Lets All Reduce Light Pollution” published in the 5/04 issue of NJ MUNICIPALITIES magazine.

Sincerely,

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