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Originally Posted by HamiltonPlanning
Does anyone know how tall the new tower is? The Stoney Creek Mountain tower was pretty tall, I believe it is the fourth or fifth tallest structure in Canada
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The old one was
357.5 metres, and the tallest structure in Canada when it was built (it was 4th before being dismantled, after the CN Tower, a TV tower in Brandon MB, and the yet-to-be-demolished Inco Superstack)
The new one is
reportedly shorter (1,000', or about 305m) but the ground elevation may be higher (Google Earth has the old site at 182m above sea level; I don't know exactly where new site is, but in that vicinity the ground is around 220m ASL plus or minus). Over the last few months I haven't really been places where the old one is visible, so it was an odd thing to not see its lights flashing as high last week.
Addition: My bedroom growing up in east Hamilton faced the escarpment, and I had a clear view of the tower. At some point the lights were changed from red to white, and after thunderstorms (and inevitable lightning strikes) the lights would often flash out of sequence. Nights when I couldn't sleep the lights were just bright enough to shine around the roll-down window blind, so I'd see them flashing against the awful wallpaper which is still there to this day.