Demolition looms for mill smokestack…

Chimney set to fall early in 2013.

Greenwood City Council voted in September the demolition of the towering – but leaning – smokestack on the old mill site would be a part of the massive debris efforts removal there.

Late last week, Greenwood City manager Charlie Barrineau said overall work at the site is moving along as scheduled and the smokestack is slated to come down in early 2013.

“We are still targeting the first part of (2013) for the smokestack,” Barrineau said.

Barrineau said there has been sampling done on the smokestack and the city has been going through the steps to get all the proper demolition and environmental permitting done for the stack.

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