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FALL RIVER – A spokesman for the company planning the planned demolition of the cooling towers at Brayton Point on Saturday confirmed that the postponement of the detonation due to bad weather was "very unlikely".
John Kowalik, a spokesman for Commercial Development Company, said Friday morning that despite the risk of showers expected Saturday, the tower's implosion will continue as planned at 8 pm.
Kowalik also said it would not necessarily be rain, but strong winds that would delay the demolition. However, he said Saturday's forecast should not be so severe. A rainy day had been scheduled for Sunday morning.
The commercial development company, which dismantles the old Brayton Point power plant to build a new wind turbine component manufacturing plant, says Saturday's demolition will set a world record for the biggest implosion ever recorded in a cooling tower. It took four years and $ 600 million to build the 500-foot concrete structures that have punctuated the Somerset skyline for six years.
State police and local police plan to establish roadblocks on sections of I-195, Route 24 and municipal streets leading to the 8-hour detonation. An exclusion zone also limits movement on Brayton Point at the time of implosion, as well as in the waters surrounding the cooling towers.
The demolition should last 10 seconds.
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