Duke Energy to implode Weatherspoon Plant.
A retired power plant in Lumberton will soon be brought to the ground by explosives.
Duke Energy’s W.H. Weatherspoon Plant, which has been inactive since the Charlotte–based company shuttered the plant in 2011, will be demolished, but Duke Energy, for security reasons, is not saying when that will happen.
The coal-fueled facility was originally named after a retired Carolina Power and Light Company executive and operated on Power Plant Road for more than 60 years.
According to a statement from Duke Energy Progress — a Raleigh-based subsidiary of Duke Energy that will handle the demolition of the plant — the implosion is “part of the company’s longstanding effort to transition to cleaner energy sources.”
The company does not expect the implosion to affect nearby residents in anyway, but said that a “brief noise may be audible near the site.”
Duke Energy Progress has taken precautions to reduce the amount of dust produced by the implosion, according to the statement.
After all the debris from the implosion has been removed, Duke Energy Progress will begin efforts to restore the site to ground-level.
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