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Originally Posted by kach22i

Sounds like you have done some good homework on the topic, so I'll go the route not mentioned in the opening post, kill the sound at it's source.

https://www.gabion1.com/gabion_noise_barriers.htm

Thanks, those are great ideas and we have talked about and looked at them. We live about 3/8 mile from Interstate 10 and about 1/4 mile from highway 90. Most of our noise comes from the Interstate. We are lucky that we do have quite a few trees between us and the interstate, but not enough and they aren't thick enough. I think we'd have to line the front of our property and a large portion of the side of the property as well. We also have an easement in the front for power which would be problematic as it would require a hole in whatever we used to block the sound. And we are 2 stories with the bedrooms upstairs which creates a line of site issue. If we thought we were going to be here long term, I'd be looking at planting cedars along the front and side of the property as those are native to the area and grow thick and tall. I've joked with the missus about spiking the area across the road with bamboo that could run wild.

The gray pin is the location of the house. We also have a dip from a ravine at one point that makes it more difficult to build something up/tall to block sound from that direction.