| | Southern Environmental Law Center - Land and Community: Nashville 840 Loop (TN) |
 | | Sedimentation caused by muddy runoff from construction is one of the major water quality problems throughout the South, and state DOT's are among the worst offenders. |
 | | The construction of 840 South severely impaired the water quality in Kelley Creek, a world-class aquatic ecosystem, and other streams, focusing attention on the state's lack of runoff controls and failure to maintain clean streams. |
 | | Specific to the 840 project, it calls for TDOT to undertake a variety of remedial and preventative measures on 840, including the restoration of damaged streams and wetlands, biological assessments of each stream and wetland it crosses in the final segments of 840 South, and the payment of a civil penalty. |
| www.southernenvironment.org /cases/nashville_840/casepage.htm (337 words) |