Oskemen: Heat Supplied

As we wrote earlier, about 15,000 consumers in the KShT district of Oskemen did not have heating and hot water for more than a day, Orda.kz reports.

Relatively warm weather did not affect the coldness that overtook the buildings. Social networks were filled with comments about the lack of hot water and cold radiators in the houses of the KShT district.

Residents say the power was also turned off in some buildings. The employees of the service company JSC Shygys Jylu found the cause and location of the breakage in the heating main only at night. 

JSC Shygys Jylu was reluctant to comment on the situation.

At first, there were promises that the breakage would be fixed by 7 p.m. and then by 11 p.m. on Saturday.

Only at midnight was it possible to find a 630-mm-diameter breakage in the heating main at the construction site of a new shopping center. The Akim of the East Kazakhstan region also arrived at the scene.

The most important thing is that there is a reaction and nothing irreparable. An incident occurred, they found it, started to fix it and after some time they will supply water. Again, the weather is helping us, if there was frost, the situation would be more complicated. They will look into the reasons,  noted the Akim of the East Kazakhstan region, Yermek Kosherbayev.

Dedicated workers and warm weather indeed facilitated the repairs.

During the night, 10 fitters, two welders and seven pieces of equipment were brought in. We worked for exactly a little over a day, only the welders changed, and the fitters stayed on site. Our usual schedule is from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but this time we had to work 24 hours straight without stopping. We dug in the mud, at night, and this complicated our work; if this had happened during the day, we would have done it twice as fast. Presumably, there was some kind of manufacturing defect that we discovered during welding, and that is why the work time increased. At the moment, the pipeline is in very good condition,reported the head of JSC Shygys Jylu's Left Bank District of the heating networks, Oleg Bondar.

The incident was resolved within a day. 

Yes, there are no words to comment, only emotions, a complete mess, either cables, or lighting, or pipes, or something else, constant problems with emergency shutdowns on all networks without exception. Our houses are on the mountain, all systems here are powered by electricity, all the houses are blown by all the winds since they were not built according to the 'wind streamline' but according to someone's whim. It's good that this time everything more or less worked out since the outside temperature was not bad! And if such a situation happens again in the cold?! We need to analyze, draw the right conclusion and find a way out! A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, let the Akimat wake up! And there are frosts ahead, says Yerzhan Kulitayev, a resident of the 19th microdistrict.

Local authorities report that a special commission has been created to analyze the situation, and city residents hope that officials and experts will be highly attentive this time around. 

Original Author: Correspondent