I. Metshin: “The issue of commissioning is the work with residents. It is necessary to react fast”

(KZN.RU, September 25, Zilya Gayfi). For today, the heat has been launched in Kazan in 518 kindergartens, schools, and hospitals, accounting for 72% of all urban social institutions, as well as 225 multi-apartment buildings. Iskander Giniyatullin, the deputy head of the Executive Committee and the chairman of the Committee for Housing and Communal Services, spoke about the launch of a heat in the city today on the Business Monday in the Kazan City Hall.

According to him, the preparation for the heat start was completed in early September by finishing pressure test of the heating systems, which confirmed the readiness of the city's heat supply network to bear heating loads.

This year the heating season in Kazan started on September 20. But on September 7, notifications about the early start-up of heat to social facilities, if necessary, were sent to the resource-supplying organizations. Iskander Giniyatullin reminded that heat should be supplied to consumers when the average daily temperature reaches +8 degrees within 5 days. This kind of weather is not yet observed, so the full supply of heat did not start.

The scale of preparation for the heating season is traditionally characterized by the volume of work performed. “The washing, crimping, and inspection of 11 thousand km of in-house heating systems are carried out. The replacement of more than 125 km of pipelines of in-house heating networks was made, almost 16 thousand pieces of heating devices were replaced. The equipment of the housing stock is continued with automatic weather regulation units. In the current year, 143 nodes were installed. In total, the heating supply in the city is automated in 3260 residential houses, which is 62% of all housing. The heating supply enterprises prepared almost 2 thousand km of main and intra-quarter heat networks with diameters from 50 to 1200 mm. More than 53 km of pipelines have been replaced. All sources of heat supply have been prepared”, said the head of the committee.

At the same time, a modernization of the equipment of heat supply companies continues. So, modern generation capacities have been operating at the second and third stations of Kazan CHP plants in the past and current year.

Also, the AO “Kazenergo” carried out a comprehensive modernization and reconstruction of 5 district boiler houses and 6 central heating stations. In addition, this year, reconstruction and modernization of equipment in the boiler house of the reinforced concrete plant ZhBI“Elevatorstroy”.

It is important that a number of heat supply issues were resolved during the preparation for the heating season. Thus, residents of 6 houses of the Sovetsky district were left without hot water because of the shutdown of the boiler house at the dairy plant in the summer. The problem was solved thanks to the appearance of a new owner, who carried out a large-scale work to repair the boiler house and replace the heating main. And the issue of switching houses to the boiler of the AO “Kazenergo” will be considered as early as next year.

The implementation of the program for switching consumers from central heating points of the AO “Tatenergo” to indoor individual heat points continues. According to I. Giniyatullin, 1392 points are already installed in 1280 facilities, including 1115 apartment buildings and 165 budgetary institutions. “The transfer to individual heat points of about 1300 residential buildings is our result. This is especially important in yards, where the life is active, and the networks are old and worn out. We will closely overview how it works”, commented the Mayor.

In general, Ilsur Metshin noted that the preparation for the heating season is a huge, invisible work of heat supply companies, heads of districts, the Housing and Utilities Committee. The residents are already assessing the result in the start of the heat. “The beginning of the heating season is the end of the hard-working period. This is a huge amount of work. I remember when I, as a young head of the department of housing privatization of the Sovetsky district administration, worked with Albert Kamaleev. We were preparing for the winter. Each separate boiler house was reported on. Times were difficult, there was no money, no resources. Today this is a planned work for us”, said the Mayor.

The head of the city urged for a quick reaction to the residents' appeals on the issues of heat start-up. “The issue of commissioning is a matter of working with residents. It could be the foul pipe, or the pressure is too much, it is necessary to react fast. There will be problems in a millionth city with 522 apartment buildings. Residents understand the situation. It is important to do work with the population as respectfully as possible. The resource “Open Kazan” should become our daily assistant in this matter”, instructed the Mayor.

He also noted that a quick issues solution is what the population expects from the management companies. “The speed of response to any citizen's application must be in accordance with the fee charged. The budget item for public services is very important. We cannot change it, it is a federal component. But we can respond quickly to citizens' appeals, we don’t need Moscow for it. This is our sphere of responsibility. We must work in this direction and do our best”, said Ilsur Metshin.