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Holly Power Plant
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This location has been labeled as Demolished, and therefore can be viewed by anyone.
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A 22 acre natural gas and oil power plant, right off of town lake. Reaches about 6 stories high, and over looks several parks and trails in the area.
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Type: Building
Status: Demolished
Accessibility: - select -
Recommendation: forget it
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rust
unsafe flooring
water
air quality
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Holly power station is untouched, all equipment is still inside, no vandalism.. beautiful. Many rooms full of piping, machinery, and even huge rows of outdated computers.. Many great views of town lake from the cat walks.
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fences
barbed wire
part-time guard
locked gates
cameras
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Respirator.. some of the areas have an iffy chemical pool that is kind of noxious.
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Construction of Holly Street Power Plant, and the longhorn dam (to provide cooling for the plant) began in the late 1950's, and finally opened for use in 1960. The plant is a natural gas/oil-fired steam electric generating facility. The plant consists of four steam turbine generators, and produced a total of 540 megawatts of electricity. The plants main purpose was to stabilize power distribution on Austins 69KV system, and to compensate for the loss of the other power plants and substations. After many years of successful operation, Holly closed it's doors and stopped production on September of 2007
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A contract has been arranged for the demolition of the plant now. They plan to begin decommissioning it in July, which should start off a rather lengthy process to make the Plant stop existing.
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The moderator rating is a neutral rating of the content quality, photography, and coolness of this location.
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9 / 10 |
| Coolness |
9 / 10 |
| Content Quality |
8 / 10 |
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This location's validation is current. It was last validated by
Steed on 6/19/2014 8:25 AM.
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on Jun 19 14 at 8:25, Steed validated this location
on Oct 17 13 at 17:38, mutatingcat01 changed the following: Recommendation
on Oct 17 13 at 17:37, mutatingcat01 changed the following: Status, Accessibility
on Jun 30 11 at 6:14, Steed validated this location
on Jun 30 11 at 3:02, Harlan changed the following: Security Measures
on May 28 11 at 15:14, Opheliaism validated this location
on May 28 11 at 4:18, Harlan changed the following: Media Coverage, Future Plans
on Feb 1 11 at 4:06, Steed validated this location
on Jan 31 11 at 14:05, CazyBeast2 updated gallery picture O_o
on Jan 31 11 at 7:35, Steed validated this location
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