After 43 years of service, it
was time for the 4 large smokestacks at the Lakeview Generating
Station to come down. The stacks, known locally as the "4
Sisters" were brought down by explosives one at a time at
intervals of about 8 seconds. Each stack was 493 feet tall and
made of reinforced concrete lined with brick. When the plant was
first opened in 1962 it was considered the largest coal fired
power station in the world. It took less than a minute to reduce
the stacks to a pile of rubble.