Landon lends expertise about potholes for BDN piece
Melissa Landon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, was cited in a Bangor Daily News story about frost heaves. She says it’s best to build roads over soil that does not trap water, as it can freeze in the winter. “You are mostly going to see them [potholes] where the soil beneath the road is the type that traps and holds moisture, like clay.” Interstate 95 and the Maine Turnpike are, for the most part, free of frost heaves, Landon says, because they’re “engineered and built with a good soil base and drainage and taken care of to prevent water from collecting.”