Implosion fells John Sevier Coal Plant stacks.
The John Sevier Fossil Plant’s two smokestacks were brought down with the use of approximately 110 pounds of strategically placed explosives per stack.
The coal burning plant was constructed in 1956 and continued to produce electricity until the new gas plant next door went online in 2012.
“Those stacks are part of the original plant which was built in the 1950s, so they’ve been there for quite some time,” says public relations manager Jom Hopson. “For about the past year and a half we have been in the process of decommissioning the plant, demolishing the components of the old coal plant, and then returning the area to a brownfield development site. The stack demolition that occurred last Saturday was just another milestone in that. It was one of the last of the major components of the plant that were still there.
