CLAXTON, Tennessee — On Saturday morning at 6 a.m., the Tennessee Valley Authority imploded the smokestacks that have been a staple of the Claxton community in Anderson County since the 1960s.
TVA said no coal ash was in the stacks, and all hazardous material was removed. The TVA put hundreds of thousands of gallons of water on the site and put up ‘curtains’ to minimize dust.
“They fall in a very controlled manner, basically like you’d see a tree falling,” TVA spokesperson Tom Satkowiak said…