PenPly stack to be stripped before crews tumble it down
Workers are expected to begin unwrapping plastic sheathing from around the former Peninsula Plywood smokestack this week — perhaps today — as Port of Port Angeles officials and site demolition contractors make plans to topple the 175-foot structure April 8.
The tower is scheduled to disappear from the city’s skyline at 3:30 p.m. that Monday next month.
It will take about 2½ weeks to remove the protective plastic and dismantle scaffolding, port Director of Engineering Chris Hartman said.
The scaffolding and plastic were put into place so that workers could remove asbestos-laden paint as part of the port’s $1.6 million project to demolish 11 buildings on the 19-acre site at 439 Marine Drive.
Hartman said an environmental consultant with Seattle-based Argus Pacific Inc. was slated to conduct air-monitoring tests Monday before signing off on demolition by the end of the day.
Previous air-monitoring tests have passed “with flying colors,” he said earlier Monday.
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