Heating cut off in three Moscow areas following heating system accident

Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union - Political Publication date: Jan 25, 2000

Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Moscow, 25th January, ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Trifonov

A 1,200-mm-diametre heating pipe burst at 0450 [0150 gmt] betweenUlitsa Devyatoy Roty [street] and the River Yauza embankment today, Moscow's main directorate for civil defence and emergencies has told an ITAR-TASS correspondent. Heating for the central part of Moscow was supplied by the 23rd thermal powerstation, and the pipe was under a pressure of 10 atmospheres.

At present heating is cut off in all the residential andadministrative buildings in three municipal areas of Moscow - Tverskoy, Krasnoselskiy and Meshchanskiy - with about 300,000residents.

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Do we have any ChemE's here that can comment on the number of pipe/valve reports this month?

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 26, 2000.