Rhine Demolition puts stack under wraps ahead of asbestos removal works.
Workers at the slowly vanishing former Peninsula Plywood site are preparing a 175-foot chimney stack for its demise.
They are placing scaffolding around the cylindrical structure — notable for its height and signature “K Ply” on the flank — before removing asbestos-bearing silver paint.
The hazardous material must be removed before the stack is toppled around the end of March, according to Port of Port Angeles Director of Engineering Chris Hartman.
The Port of Port Angeles, which owns the 19-acre waterfront site at 439 Marine Drive, signed Rhine Demolition of Tacoma to a $1.6 million contract to demolish 11 buildings dating to 1941, including a 180,000-square-foot mill building that will be gone by mid-April.
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