
In the Dzerzhinsky district of Novosibirsk, a 30-meter pillar of water breaking out of the ground knocked out glass in 40 apartments of a nine-story building. This happened due to the breakthrough of the heating main pipe, which could not withstand the increase in pressure during the tests of the heating system after the repair. Glasses were broken in the windows from the first to the ninth floor, part of the apartments, especially on the lower floors, are flooded. No one was injured from the residents, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Media City Hall of the city of Sergei Neshumov.
According to him, the mayor of Novosibirsk Vladimir Gorodetsky went to the scene.
The city authorities promise residents to pay compensation for spoiled property. Those residents who will not want to stay in flooded apartments will be resettled to the Severnaya Hotel. For a while, while the house is de -energized, hot nutrition will also be organized.
Experts inspect the windows to draw up a repair plan. They promise to insert glasses into ordinary windows today. Where plastic windows are installed, while the film is pulled, since the manufacture of double-glazed windows will take some time, said Neushumov.
The press service of Novosibirskenergo explained that the heating main burst on Leshen Street in the area of houses 9 and 10 in connection with tests of heating networks, which are held in Novosibirsk from August 7 to 13. Back on Monday, as a result of increasing pressure, old pipes burst here, and after 6 meters of pipes in the damaged area were replaced with new ones, they burst in another place? During a re-increase in pressure, reports NGS-Novosti .