BGE gas holder implosion goes to plan under watchful eye of CDI.
As the clock ticked down Sunday, the morning clouds disappeared, as if they were in on the months-long planning that went into the destruction of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.’s final natural-gas holding silo.
Then, as if someone were turning on Christmas lights, the rings of the cylinder blinked with 420 explosive charges.
It took a moment for the noise — like thunder after lightning pierces the sky – for the rat-ta-tat-tat to reach the observers on the roof of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute across the Jones Falls Expressway.And in less than the 7 seconds predicted, the 258-foot-tall hollow steel structure was reduced to a pile of rubble, about 25 feet high.
Precisely at 7:30 a.m., there were puffs of smoke and dust as the copper pins in the explosive charges cut the steel more cleanly — and incredibly faster — than a blowtorch.
“Everything went very well,” said James Santoro of Controlled Demolition Inc. “It happened just the way we planned it.”
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