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Highway 5 noise study finds one eligible noise wall; ballots to be mailed to affected property representatives
Summary
Carver County’s Highway 5 noise analysis found only one candidate noise wall met MnDOT and FHWA criteria. Representatives of benefited properties near the south side of Highway 5 east of Cochia Lane will be mailed ballots to decide whether the wall advances to design.
Bob Moyer, assistant project manager for the Highway 5 improvements project, and Ken Arnholtz, a principal with the project’s engineering consultant, told a project town hall that the team’s traffic noise study identified a single location that met state and federal criteria for a noise wall.
"Only 1 location met all of the criteria to justify a noise wall," Arnholtz said, referring to modeling run with FHWA traffic-noise software and field measurements taken last year. He identified the qualifying location as on the south side of Highway 5 just east of Cochia Lane (the…
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