How will the noise from trucks entering/exiting the facility each day be minimized to reduce impacts to adjacent neighborhoods?
A. The noise monitoring studies will include an assessment of the sound emanating from the trucks on the proposed access road. The noise studies to date do not indicate the need for noise barriers under the ALDOT Noise Policy. However, current plans include barriers or earthen berms, which will provide a variety of mitigation benefits including aesthetic improvements, security, and noise suppression, along much of the access road and around part of the Automatic Gate System (AGS) area. These barriers or landscaped berms, combined with existing vegetation and the distance between the road and residents in the area are expected to reduce sounds from the trucks to near ambient levels for those residents.
