Hundreds watch as implosion fells 30 metre smoke stack.
One last puff came out of the old smokestack at the Murray-Courtright demolition site. The smoke shot up as the structure was imploded Friday morning, bringing down the 30 metre (100-plus foot) high smokestack despite a last-minute effort to save it.
Local historians wanted to save the structure at the Murray Courtright demolition site, city attorney Tim Henry said, but it was too late. The contract had been awarded and the work had begun.
Mayor Tom Leighton pushed the lever to trigger the explosives notched into the smokestack, removing the final standing structure on the parcel that will soon become a tax-generating housing development.
“That couldn’t have gone better,” said Doug Loizeaux of Controlled Demolition, Inc., the company that sub-contracted with Stell Enterprises to take down the smokestack. “We thought it was going to fall to the west, but the way it went down was perfect.”
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