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Show c2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH b Razing Stacks Takes Close Planning ition experts avoid “Whoops” New Road to Run Through Murray Sunday, December 26, 1999 FORTHERECORD 3 STRIKES,HE’S OUT After being charged with his Tooele County in 1994 and in Sandy in 1995. For his third charge, Chavez must also spend six months in a residential sul ie SALT LAKE TRIBUNE IRRAY — Although the dem@ition of two abandoned BY JOHN KEAHEY New:Murray Road THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MURRAY — Bylate next spring, Murray city officials expect to complete a new ly, blood-alcohol tests showed Charles R. Chavez, 62, with a level of 0.192, above Utah’s legal limit of 0.08. He was charged in ard program finishes his jail time, serve a 30month probation period and pay a $1,495 fine. Chavez is wearing an electronic monitoringdevice until — Cottonwood Street — hoops,’ not a word we hear,” says Eric Kelly, through a new commercial development. The planned road will parallel TRAX rail lines through the Chimney Ridge project proposed for the new town center, and run from VineStreet south to 5300 South just west of State Street. Eventually, said city spokeswoman D’Arcy Dixon Pignanelli , a $15 million over- pass — now the subject of an environmental impact study — is planned to extend Cotton- wood Street over 5300 South and connect it to 300 West,just 550 feet to the south. has Contaminated soil in neighborjoods surrounding the property been contained and covered. thatis left before construction is to bring down thestacks, which were constructed in 1918, They ‘stand 200 feet apart, with one rising approximately 300 feet and the other 455 feet. | Kelly’s company has forwarded | the latest draft of its proposed demolition plan to ASARCO and | former site owner Hi-Ute Bueh4 ner, and the other companies } building the Chimney Ridge project, including present owners The Boyer Co. and Johansenickeray & Co. The project's cost, says the demolition engineer, is confidential because of the highly compet- itive nature ofhis business. By month’s end, the proposed plan also will be sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Denver regional office for review. “It will take a month or six weeks of intense work to figure out what to do here,” says the EPA’s Bonnie Lavelle, remedial Lge manager for the Murray site. Lavelle needs to know how the events will unfold before and during the demolition in order to minimize any danger from the cloud of toxic dust that could be created from the crumbling tow- ers, Kelly says he has all that worked out. The plan is for explosive charges to be strategically placed at the base of the smokestacks so they will topple toward the north, like falling trees, into a trench thatwill be 30 feet wide and10 feet deep. Once thefirst stack falls, the second one will tumble right be- Currently, a TRAX station just northof 5300 South is being reached by Woodrow Lane, a roadway built by Chimney Ridge developers. Originally, the lane wascalled Riley Lane, but the name was changed by the developmentpartnership of The Boyer Co. and JohansenThackeray & Co. nology is no stranger to stack destruction. In 1996, the company took down four stacks also contaminated with arsenic andlead at the Bun- down,Lavelle says,scientists will analyze thelevel of contamination in thebricks. “We were unable to get a full characterization of lead and arsenicin the stacks because oftheir configuration and location,” Lavelle says. “So when they come down, we will take more samples to determine how to manage the rubble.” south stack in Murray — and the If the bricks pose no health hazard, they will be used by the Chimney Ridge developers asfill othertwo were 610feet and 715feet “All four came down in one shot,” Kelly says proudly. “It was precise. Bingo!” EPA’s Lavelle has witnessed the company’s work. Last year, the demolition firm imploded portions of the old smelter building at Kennecott, west of Salt Lake City. She was on handfor the implosion, which took down buildings that contained the smelter’s concentrator. The company also has been featured on cable-television programs. One ofits largest projects Philadelphia that demolished 3 million square feet of interior space. “That's lot of football fields,” says. Once the Murray stacks are of Utah Moments then will pay $2 million to pave ker Hill Mine in Kellogg, Idaho. Twoofthe stacks were 300 feettall — the sameheightas the shorter, e Dixon Pignanelli said a former ownerof the smelter the road with asphalt. was the 1994 implosion of the nine-story Sears warehouse in “We will not know precisely ated between 1899 and 1949, be underpinned bybricks salvaged from two smelter we pushthe button,” Kelly says. “Eachstack has a characterall its own.” Engineered Demolition Tech- A Millennium arsenic smelter site that oper- The road from Woodrow Lanenorth to Vine Street will Kelly says. The soil from digging the trenches will be piled up along how this breakupwill occur until chimneysthat are expected to be demolished onthesite early next spring. The chimneysare all that is left of an old lead- site, ASARCO,will be responsible for using the bricks to prepare the road base. Thecity hindit two or three seconds later, the sides, to help contain rubble and dust. MikeMiller/The Salt Lake Tribune In celebration of the arrival of the 8rd Millennium, award-winning Salt Lake Tribune political cartoonist Pat Bagley recreates the last 1,000 years in Utah in an 18 x 24-inch full-color poster suitable for framing.It’s all there in “1,000 Years in Utah.” Well, all that counts. The Tribune is printing a limited numberof these once-in-a-millennium “works of art.” Utah’s historic events, evolving culture and per- |; sonalities are captured as only Pat Bagley can. (And Bagley warns that this absolutely will be the last millennium poster he undertakes.) , $10 beneath a new north-south road — Cottonwood Street — planned to run through the property from Murray's VineStreetin the north to 5300 South. If too much contamination ex- i (Priceinchadestax, mailing tube and postage. Multiple posters can be purchasedin. the same mailing order for $9 each for the second and subsequentposters.) ists, Lavelle says, the developers will have to arrange for removal of debris to a special repository out of state. “We're pretty encouraged,” she says. “This is not a massive implosion [that would create contaminated dust high off the ground]. 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