Second Georgia Dome demolition set for Wednesday morning

ATLANTA — The Georgia Dome is set for a second implosion to bring down two walls left standing after the first blast.

The implosion is scheduled for Wednesday at 1 a.m.

Adam Straight, the senior director of campus operations for the Georgia World Congress Center said the same company will take down the rest of the Dome so that the major clean-up effort can begin.

“We did have some redundancy charges that did not go off so that being part of the rotation of the charges within the facility, just kept these structures remaining,” he said.

The second implosion will create another massive dust cloud and since MARTA lines run under the Dome’s footprint, MARTA will suspend service.

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“The east wall is within the proximity of the Omni, Georgia World Congress Center and Phillips station, and that is an open station so we need to protect it from any dust intrusion,” said MARTA senior engineer Larry Prescott.

The MARTA line will shut down at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. If you need to use the west line between Five Points and Vine City, you can catch a bus at those stations.

After a reinspection underground, MARTA will reopen the lines.

Straight said he doesn’t think the dust cloud will be a problem.

“The dust, I don’t expect it to be as heavy,” he said.

Officials said they know the implosion will be loud for those who live nearby, but they said if they waited, it would disrupt the morning commute.

Nearby roads will be closed for about 10 minutes.

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