![]() “It’s not as loud as you’ll think it will be,” he said. The noise will be within the allowance of state laws, Graham Miller said. He said asbestos has been abated from the property.Įarly on June 2, the Springdale Police Department will cordon off the area around the former power plant to prevent people from getting too close. “We don’t expect a real big dust event from the stacks,” Sam Miller said. Sam Miller of Charah Solutions said crews will be cleaning streets as soon as possible after the implosion. said where the dust falls will depend on wind speed and direction.Īs a precaution, people should close all windows, doors and air intakes, and cover other openings that might allow dust to enter a building. “It’s almost like felling a tree,” Miller said.Ī memo posted to the Cheswick Borough website said that, with an implosion, the dust is released in a matter of seconds and may linger in the general area for four to six minutes. The space has been cleared for crews to access the debris for removal. Sam Miller of Charah Solutions said the power station’s chimneys - 552 and 750 feet tall - will be felled into an old coal yard. Charah Solutions, an environmental remediation firm based in Louisville, Ky., acquired the site last year with the intention of demolishing Allegheny County’s last coal-fired plant.Īccording to the Allegheny Valley Regional Emergency Management Agency, a small amount of explosives will be used to create a notch at the base of each chimney to fell the structures in a highly controlled fashion. ![]() Local police will be coordinating with the Cheswick Plant Environmental Redevelopment Group, the plant’s owner Grant Mackay Co., the general contractor and Controlled Demolition Inc., the implosion subcontractor, to implode the smokestacks from the former power plant property.įrom 6 to 10 a.m., roads will be closed near the area, with detours and alternate routes in place, according to the Springdale Police Department and the Allegheny Valley Regional Emergency Management Agency.įreeport Road and Pittsburgh Street will be closed in both directions from South Duquesne Avenue in Cheswick to Colfax Street in Springdale.Īfter operating for 50 years, the plant ceased operations in April 2022. The skyline in the Lower Valley will look different after June 2.Īccording to authorities, that’s the day the Cheswick Generating Station’s smokestacks will be imploded at around 8 a.m. That was the tallest chimney ever felled with explosives. That project set a record as a 1,000-foot-tall, reinforced concrete windscreen with two, 1,007-foot-tall, free standing, internal steel flues. The company also imploded the Harllee Branch Generating Plant windscreen and freestanding internal steel flues in Milledgeville, Ga., in 2016. At 2000 feet, the tower was the tallest manmade structure ever felled with explosives, according to CDI. In 2012, CDI imploded the WECT television tower in Elizabethtown, N.C. At 439 feet tall, Hudson was the tallest structural steel building ever imploded at 2.2 million square feet, it's the largest single building ever imploded. ![]() In 2000, it imploded the Seattle Kingdome, the world's largest structure, by volume, to be demolished by explosives. CDI also holds numerous world records for its implosions, according to its website. CDI imploded Three Rivers Stadium in 2001. ![]() According to the Phoenix, Md.-based company's website, CDI has demolished thousands of structures, across six continents, using explosives over the past seven decades. is no stranger to implosions, with notable demolitions in Western Pennsylvania. Notable demolitions Controlled Demolition Inc. ![]()
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