A remnant of New England’s coal-fired past came crashing down on April 27, when two, 500 ft cooling towers were demolished in Somerset, Mass. It took 10 seconds and cost $1 million to reduce to rubble the towers that cost $600 million and took four years to build.
It will take another three months to crush the rubble left from the towers and spread it across the 308-acre lot where it will be used as the base for the repurposed site.