Water tower remains standing on two legs before finally succumbing.
The Copley Square Water Corp. tower came down Jan. 19 with no problems, according to Nick Filippi, project manager for B&B Wrecking and Excavating, of Cleveland, which oversaw the job.
Filippi said the company’s crew of four workers were on site at 8 a.m. and the tower was down within three hours. Some work at the site was completed in the days leading up to the tower’s removal, Filippi added.
Copley Township officials said the 165-foot tower was abandoned and emptied of water years ago when an apartment complex was built next to it and water service was supplied through a Joint Economic Development District agreement with the city of Akron.
The tower was to be pulled down last summer, but an agreement had to be reached between the owners of property on which the tower was to fall before the job could be completed.
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