A HOT-lane contractor in Virginia is in hot water. Make that muddy water.
Flour-Lane LLC, a joint venture handling the construction of high-occupancy toll lanes through 14 miles on the Beltway, is being sued by environmental group Potomac Riverkeeper for excessive dirt running off the site and into the Accotink Creek.
“This site is terrible,” Ed Merrifield, head of the Potomac Riverkeeper, told the Washington Post. “Something has to be done.”