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PROVO, Utah (AP) -- Concerns over air quality have scrapped plans to demolish two BYU dorms using explosives.
State regulators rejected the request to use explosives to drop the buildings in minutes on December 20th, when students are away on Christmas break.
The Utah Air Quality Board was concerned about dust over Provo. That leaves the buildings to be taken down by a wrecking ball.
But Edwin Jackson, a risk manager at BYU, says a mechanical destruction will create more dust over a longer period of time.
The buildings, V and W towers, would be razed to make room for apartment-style housing.
Information from: The Daily Herald
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