{"id":34375,"date":"2021-07-12T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cooling-tower-collapses-at-san-juan-generating-station\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:18:09","slug":"cooling-tower-collapses-at-san-juan-generating-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cooling-tower-collapses-at-san-juan-generating-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooling tower collapses at San Juan Generating Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=15991eaa-a1d7-46ad-89a9-f3b9f5aedb05&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1183\" alt=\"The San Juan Generating Station outside Farmington in northwest New Mexico is seen during the evening across the plant\u2019s cooling pond.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The San Juan Generating Station outside Farmington in northwest New Mexico is seen during the evening across the plant\u2019s cooling pond.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of PMN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 A cooling tower at the San Juan Generating Station collapsed June 30.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Sandoval with the Public Service Co. of New Mexico said Friday that while it does not normally comment on operational issues, the department wanted to provide an \u201caccurate statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn June 30, an incident occurred at the San Juan Generating Station where a cooling tower collapsed,\u201d Sandoval said. \u201cThere were no injuries, and the cause of the collapse is under review.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PNM notified the New Mexico Environment Department that the Unit 1 cooling tower had collapsed, said Maddy Hayden, spokeswoman for the Environment Department. Because of the collapse, the same unit\u2019s boiler also shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPNM indicated they plan to submit an air-quality permit application to the Environment Department to bring new cooling towers and, subsequently, the Unit 1 generating unit back online,\u201d Hayden wrote in an email to <em id=\"emphasis-45f5384a84c041e2e997f875c90fb0a1\">The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The cleanup and investigations continue, Sandoval said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-4809d9495e839717b4cdeb4801073403\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>incident is under review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1098,799,443,2901],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-energy","tag-farmington","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico","tag-san-juan-generating-station"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82586,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions\/82586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34375"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}