COLUMBIA — Commuters heading toward MU from the south or west in the past week might have noticed a large white sheet on the south tower of the MU Power Plant. It's not a public art project — the sheet is actually a knitted polyethylene fabric intended to secure loose pieces of concrete on the 320-foot chimney.
MU smokestacks need repair
The project will cost an estimated $3.8 million and will give the power plant chimneys a glossier look.
Sunday, August 23, 2009 | 12:00 a.m. CDT
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