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Power-Plant Waste to Strengthen Los Lunas, N.M., Park Pavilion.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004

By Rosalie Rayburn, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 24--LOS LUNAS, N.M. -- Once considered a nuisance, fly ash from the San Juan power plant will help strengthen a structure in a Los Lunas community park as part of PNM's program on environmental stewardship.

Public Service Company of New Mexico is working with Tree New Mexico, a nonprofit environmental organization, and the Los Lunas Parks and Recreation Department to construct a pavilion in the community's River Park.

The pavilion will be built using small logs, cleared as part of a cleanup project, and concrete that contains at least 25 percent fly ash, a waste product from the coal-fueled San Juan generating plant. The method is called stackwall...

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