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The Big Dig Highway Project


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The Big Dig Highway Project
This paper discusses the ecological benefit of Boston's Big Dig, the most complex and expensive highway project ever undertaken in the United States.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages) | 4 sources | MLA | 2002 United States


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This paper explains that Big Dig, a state-of-the-art eight-to-ten-lane expressway, for the most part underground or underwater, will run through downtown Boston and the Ted Williams Tunnel to Logan Airport. The paper reviews three areas of environmental concern: The digging and dumping of the dirt, mitigation and air quality. The author points out that the mitigation aspect of the project protects the city from devastating noise disruption, dust, traffic gridlock and economic damage.

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"There are other benefits as well. According to Daniel Wood of Public Roads Magazine, the Big Dig will be "good news for the local shellfish population because of the construction of an artificial reef in Boston Harbor" (Public Roads). The reef, created in collaboration with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is designed to compensate for filling in over one acre of blue mussel habitat in the harbor during the closing and capping of the former municipal landfill on Spectacle Island. Wood also says that, "As the northernmost artificial reef system in the United States, the complex is expected to become home to lobsters, crabs, and finfish, as well as the displaced blue mussels" "

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The Big Dig Highway Project (2012, February 09). Retrieved February 10, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-The-Big-Dig-Highway-Project/29168

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"The Big Dig Highway Project" 09 February 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-The-Big-Dig-Highway-Project/29168>




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