Implosion fells power plant unit.
Residents of Eastern McLennan County were jarred by an explosion Friday morning as a demolition crew used explosives to implode a large tower at the old Tradinghouse Creek Power Plant.
The implosion happened at around 9:10 a.m. Friday and the steel tower was no more than a mass of rubble within seconds.
Luminant, the plant’s owner, is dismantling the plant, which includes two inactive natural gas-powered steam units.
“This is a very deliberate, fairly lengthy process and at this time, no definitive date has been set for the demolition to be complete, Meranda Cohn, spokeswoman for Luminant said Friday.
Cohn said Tradinghouse is among the older facilities that Luminant owns.
It was mothballed in 2010.
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