The implosion that wasn’t
To the editor:
Viewing the results of the much-ballyhooed “implosion” of the old Loring heating plant suggests that the job was undertaken by inept demolition contractors or that they failed to keep their powder dry in our unrelenting wet weather.
It doesn’t take an engineering degree to conclude that a methodical top-to-bottom disassembly might have been a simpler and far safer game plan. But known structural elements have now been transformed into a nightmare of twisted, bent, broken metal, masonry and glass replete with unpredictable stresses, pressures, weights, and instabilities.
It will be a miracle if the remaining wreckage can be removed without serious injury or death to anyone.
Carroll B. Knox
Caribou
