Summer deadline for double blast.
A pair of cooling towers in North Jacksonville will be imploded this summer.
The city issued a permit for Total Wrecking & Environmental LLC to implode the 464-foot-tall concrete cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park at 11201 New Berlin Road.
Total Wrecking & Environmental is the contractor for the job, listed at a cost of $14.5 million. It did not provide details about the implosion.
On Nov. 16, Total Wrecking was awarded the demolition contract including an additional scope to demolish equipment and other structures and to restore the site to an industrial standard for a total bid of $17,737,420.
Total Wrecking, based in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, New York, is a national company with three generations in the demolition business.
JEA and Florida Power & Light Co. co-own the power park. The Florida Public Service Commission approved the plant closing in September.
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