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Maintenance and repair of water fountains in NYC parks
3:38:03
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Council Member Brewer inquires about the maintenance of water fountains in parks, particularly those that are broken. Commissioner Donoghue explains that the Parks Department has a process for activating and repairing water fountains, including maintaining a database of issues.
- Over 6,000 water activations are scheduled to be completed by the end of the week
- The department maintains a database to track challenges with water fountains
- Common issues include early freezes and broken pipes
Gale A. Brewer
3:38:03
Water fountains.
3:38:04
Hearing recently, I think it was a different topic, but water fountains came up in the sense that a lot of them are broken.
3:38:09
Either do you have like a database as to the broken ones?
3:38:13
How do you handle them?
3:38:14
We obviously have some participatory budget money that will go towards new ones.
3:38:19
But there's a when I brought that up, there was a long list of, uh-oh, we have so many broken.
3:38:23
How are you handling that?
3:39:01
Okay.
3:39:02
So, no, what you're saying is that you have a process now that you're fixing those that those
3:39:07
I have a long list.
3:39:08
Will get it to
Sue Donoghue
3:38:24
Thank you, council member, for the question.
3:38:27
And we were just talking about this.
3:38:28
We have over 6,000 water activations that we will be committed to having done by the end of this week, an enormous, enormous job for our plumbers across the five boroughs.
3:38:41
We do maintain a database.
3:38:42
We do look carefully at where we're having challenges.
3:38:46
A lot of times if a water fountain is broken, it's because of early freeze or pipes being broken.
3:38:52
But it is something that we take very seriously.
3:38:54
And if there's a specific one that you're referring to or a specific area, we definitely let us know and we would we'll definitely take a look at it.
3:39:06
styles.
3:39:06
Yes, absolutely.
3:39:08
you.
3:39:09
Okay.