![]() And it can be spotted from as far away as portions of Box Elder County, across the Great Salt Lake. Some airline pilots and frequent flyers also have been known to use it as a landmark. She also said boaters she knows, who sail the Great Salt Lake, use it as a key geographical indicator. Jana Kettering, Kennecott spokeswoman, said the stack is an icon, a landmark, for people traveling in and out of the Salt Lake Valley. It cost $16.3 million at the time to build, the rough equivalent of almost $70 million in today's dollars. It is built according to Zone 3 seismic standards. 26, 1974, and was finished in less than three months. Some 900 tons of steel were also required. Concrete flowed - more than 26,000 cubic yards - for 84 days, 24/7, minus one short break, to complete it. "They commandeered every cement truck in northern Utah" when they built it, Haymond said. ![]() The chimney replaced several predecessor Kennecott smokestacks, now demolished, the tallest of which was a height of 413 feet. Haymond said Kennecott, owned by Rio Tinto, is one of the two cleanest smelters in the world, capturing 99.9 percent of all the sulphur gas released. However, with leaping advances in pollution controls, it is now taller than it needs to be. It was just high enough to disperse waste gases, according to the new standards. He said when the federal Clean Air Act came along in 1970, Kennecott built the stack, which at the time was a good fit. … It would cost a fortune to take it down." "It's overkill for this (refinery) plant," said Jack Haymond, a consulting engineer for Kennecott who has worked there for 45 years. The concrete itself towers to an even 1,200 feet, and then the fiberglass flue goes up another 15 feet. That's because you'll almost crack your neck, straining to look straight up and see the seemingly endless top of this mammoth structure.Ī look inside its base reveals a surprising amount of open space, surrounded by concrete up to 12 feet thick. You really don't want to stand right next to Kennecott Copper's Garfield smelter smokestack either. It's almost the equivalent of having an Empire State Building high structure rising up, or equal to the height of three LDS Church Office Buildings (state's runner-up highest free-standing structure).īuilt in 1974, the smokestack's hexagon-shaped base is 177 feet across. ![]() Rising sharply about a dozen miles west of Salt Lake City and just south of I-80, this icon, which turns 35 this fall, is by far the tallest man-made structure in Utah at 1,215 feet. However, the reality is that the Kennecott smokestack is one of the loftiest, free-standing structures in the world and the tallest such thing west of the Mississippi. In similar fashion, Kennecott Copper's Garfield Smelter smokestack is dwarfed as it stands adjacent to the 9,000-plus-foot Oquirrh Mountains, which rise more than 4,000 feet above the Salt Lake Valley. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service.If you were standing next to the likes of Yao Ming, Shawn Bradley or Shaquille O'Neal, you'd probably seem pretty short. ![]() Another son, Russell Fiorella, owns and operates a Smokestack location in Kansas City, North, at 8250 N. A daughter, Mary Fiorella McPheron, opened a Smokestack location at 8921 Wornall Road, now operated by her children. Three Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue locations are operated by Jack Fiorella, son of Russell and Flora. In 2006, the Fiorella barbecue "clan" is linked to five Kansas City area barbecue restaurants. Russell and Flora Fiorella opened the first Smokestack Barbecue location in 1957. Original Smokestack Restaurant Closes DoorsĪrticle reporting the closure of the original Smokestack Barbecue restaurant, located at 8129 South U.S. ![]()
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