In Irkutsk, heating in residential buildings will be turned off gradually, and after the season ends, hydraulic tests of utility networks will be carried out in the city. This may cause temporary hot and cold water outages in some districts, which residents and businesses will be warned about in advance. The city administration also summed up the season, complaints about the heating system decreased, and Irkutsk residents debt for utilities reached 46 million rubles.
In Irkutsk, heating in residential buildings will be gradually turned off. This was announced yesterday at a press conference by the Deputy Mayor of Irkutsk, Nikolai Khitsenko. He emphasized that the heating will be turned off gradually, since “the heating system is a very complex complex that requires a certain approach”According to Khitsenko, the end of the heating season is linked to the fact that average daily temperatures exceed +8. After the heating is completely shut off, hydraulic tests of all utility networks will be carried out. In this regard, temporary shutoffs of hot and cold water will be carried out in certain districts of the city. “All enterprises and residents located in these areas will be notified in advance,” Khitsenko noted.
Summing up the preliminary results of the heating season, Khitsenko noted that during the 2008-2009 heating season there was one serious accident on the Kitoy, when residential buildings in Novo-Lenino were left without heating. The number of complaints about unsatisfactory operation of the heating system in the current heating season was 6,000 fewer than in the previous heating season and amounted to 30,000 requests. The total debt of Irkutsk residents for utility services amounts to 46 million rubles.