Bloomfield Environmentalists Sue to Block I-69 Construction
August 3, 2011
On Monday a Bloomington, Indiana, citizen group filed a lawsuit voicing environmental concerns about the expansion of Interstate 69 from Indianapolis to Evansville.
The group, called Citizens for Appropriate Rural Roads, wants the Indiana Department of Transportation to stop the in-progress construction on an I-69 expansion from the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center to Evansville.
Among other complaints, the group says the new highway would impact sinkholes, caves, springs, and sinking streams in Indiana, and even possibly wipe out the Indiana bat population.
The suit includes a Bloomington couple who would lose a portion of their property in part of the six-section highway extension.
“The [couple] enjoys recreating on their farm with their children and grandchildren, walking the same soil as [their] ancestors, taking their grandchildren on nature hikes, and swinging on grapevines,” the suit reads. “They enjoy the many creatures that inhabit the woods and pastures of the farm, including cattle, deer, and wild turkey. The proposed I-69 highway would destroy this environment, and thereby adversely affect the use and enjoyment of their property.”
The Evansville Courier & Press reports that INDOT will move forward with construction despite the lawsuit.
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