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Causes of heating interruptions in NYCHA developments
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Council Member Chris Banks asks about the causes of heating interruptions, and Keith Grossman explains some of the reasons for outages in NYCHA developments.
- Many NYCHA buildings have infrastructure past its useful life
- Leaks may occur when the system is put under pressure, despite maintenance
- External causes like power loss or utility steam loss can lead to outages
Chris Banks
0:38:01
know, what caused the, heating to be interrupted?
Keith Grossman
0:38:05
So there's any number of, issues.
0:38:08
As I said, our infrastructure is past, in many cases, past its useful life.
0:38:14
So just because we perform maintenance when we put the system under pressure, a leak may happen or there may be some external cause.
0:38:22
For example, if there's a power loss or there's a loss of steam from a utility, we that may cause an outage as well.