Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Explosion disabled cement structure in August
Holes were punched in the bottom of Ag Partner's elevator in Royal to drain all remaining grain following an explosion in August.
Plans are being developed to rebuild a destroyed grain elevator in Royal.
Ag Partners submitted a building permit to the Royal City Council on Oct. 14 calling for the demolition of the affected bin and its replacement. Few other details were provided in the application, but council members gave it the go-ahead after hearing a brief update from Ag Partners' Royal location manager Lucas Kline.
Brent Low, vice president of agronomy and corporate marketing at Ag Partners, said after the meeting that plans for the Royal site rebuild are still in development. More information will be released as it becomes available.
The blast that shook Royal on Aug. 25 was chalked up to "a grain dust incident" by the company. No injuries were reported.
Despite the crippling blow, a redesign of the Royal site has enabled customers to deliver grain to the facility this fall during harvest. All the bin space in Royal is being utilized aside from 330,000 bushels of storage that is not usable due to the explosion.
