Interstate's Path Meets a Surprise Landfill

摘要

According to an often-shared saying, if you want to find all the undiscovered environmental problems in a state, randomly pick a future roadway route-it will run directly through all of them. This was the experience when the Tennessee Department of Transportation (DOT) selected a preliminary route through west Tennessee for Interstate 69-also known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway-which runs for 3,150 km (1,960 mi) between Mexico and Canada.