In the Angara region, 2.3 billion rubles will be allocated to prepare for the 2013 2014 heating season, for construction, reconstruction and major repairs of utility infrastructure. By winter, housing stock, thousands of kilometers of networks, hundreds of heat sources and pumping stations, as well as water intakes and substations, must be prepared. Since the start of the heating season, 158 utility incidents have already been recorded in the region, though their number is slightly lower than a year earlier.
To prepare for the 2013–2014 heating season in the Angara region, measures are planned for the construction, reconstruction, and major repair of public utility infrastructure facilities in the amount of 2.3 billion rubles. Of this, the regional budget allocates 837.3 million rubles, 356.3 million rubles are provided in local budgets, and funds from housing and utilities enterprises will amount to 1.1 billion rubles.By winter, 34.8 million sq. m of housing stock, 1,058 heat sources, 3.8 thousand km of heating networks, 4.8 thousand km of water supply networks, 3.5 thousand km of sewer networks, 40.5 thousand km of power lines, 11.8 thousand transformer substations, 175 water intakes, 163 water supply pumping stations, and 220 sewer pumping stations must be prepared.
Today, the region’s housing and utilities sector has 1,058 municipal heat sources in operation, and 26,890 residential buildings and 3,915 social facilities are connected to centralized heat supply. Since the start of the current heating season to the present, the regional analytical dispatch service has registered 158 incidents at utility facilities, which is 10 fewer than in the same period of the previous heating season. At the same time, material damage from accidents amounted to 12.4 million rubles — the costs of eliminating accidents increased by 3.6 million rubles.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region