DEMOLITION | EMAD & TCC Water Towers

Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, USA (acting as Explosives Subcontractor to Main Demolition Contractor, Clauss Construction of Lakeside, California) performs the engineering design, physical preparation for and successful explosives felling of the 120’ tall EMAD and TCC, structural steel water towers supported by four (4) cylindrical steel legs. The Engine Maintenance, Assembly, and Disassembly (EMAD) and Test Cell C (TCC) facilities were located at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) in Mercury, Nevada.
CDI designed an engineered implosion plan to prepare and safely fell the structures to grade where the post felling debris could be reached with Clauss’s conventional demolition equipment for downsizing and debris removal. Lead based paint was identified and removed at torch modification cut points, per CDI’s plan, prior to CDI’s pre-burning, to prepare those cut points for placement of linear shaped charges (LSCs). CDI positioned LSCs on two (2) of the four (4) support legs on each water tower to create an eccentric load and modified the rear legs to act as hinges about which CDI rotated each tower in its designated direction of fall.
The EMAD and TCC Water Towers were successfully felled, exactly per plan, on January 11, 2024. The EMAD Water Tower was felled within 5° of the designed centerline of fall to the northeast and the TCC Water Tower was felled within 3° of the designed centerline of fall to the west. There was no projection of debris from the towers to the rear or either side of the designed fall path and there was no separation of tank debris beyond the height of the structure in the direction of fall for each tank.

[@wdwerker]

I understand safety precautions are important but dropping a full or even partially filled water tower would have been such a photo opportunity!

[@jefff6167]

It was full, full of rust😂

[@as48507]

An old water tower like this would be a great place to be in a zombie apocalypse… I’d rather a lighthouse, but in a pinch a water tower might be your savior..

[@CollinTheSav]

mhm, plasma cut out a door and weld in some supports internally for flooring, or something.

[@MrUranium238]

And of course the inevitable rust fart from its main water pipe 😀

[@ivertranes2516]

"Rust fart" Love that term.

[@tashalynn29]

Lol

[@dominikmartinisko]

Cdi try released all your old videos demolishing old structures outside america like compilation

[@whodat90]

That first tower was very robust. Looked like you could just stand it back up afterwards.

[@clydebalobo5418]

Oh my God is water tower Demolition

[@twiglet2214]

I just asked for a glass of water - perhaps just a tad over the top ? Bang on time though !

[@wayneheigl5549]

you guys must love to work out in the open with nothing near by to worry about damaging . great job C.D.I.

[@northernerierailroadproduc114]

Did you only last the legs on one side and just weld through the other

[@cindydaniels3964]

Just beautiful.😁😸✌️

[@bigguy1960]

A lot bigger than they looked,.

[@Insertgenericusernamehere809]

Did you demolish the old Woodrow Wilson bridge?

[@dominikmartinisko]

Or alfred p murrah building demolition or lake city radio tower

[@anandguruji83]

DEMOLITION | EMAD & TCC Water Towers

[@anandguruji83]

DEMOLITION | EMAD & TCC Water Towers

[@uTube486]

You guys must have a few name plates from all your work. May I buy one?

[@remmiemax3624]

Congrads on 100K Subs 😎😎

[@KiimPinkPowerRanger]

Water tower tcc EMAD

[@robnobert]

oh damn that first water tower is historic 🤣 no more I guess

[@scania237]

Bro just pooped

[@jjwilliam3365]

What else you got that was total pccy boy 👎

[@keithlewis9106]

This is around area 51 !

[@susanwahl6322]

Wow! A new one!