The annual task of replacing heating networks in Belarus has been completed by 84%

September 27, Minsk / Yekaterina Markovich - BELTA /. The annual target for replacing heating networks in Belarus has been completed by 84%. This was announced today to journalists by Gennady Trubilo, Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services of Belarus, as reported by a BELTA correspondent. Currently, 642 km of heating networks have been replaced. The target set by the government for replacement by October 1, which was 609 km of heating networks, has been fulfilled by housing and communal services organizations by 105%. Overall, the work on preparing housing and communal services facilities for the heating period is being completed across the country with weekly monitoring of its progress. According to the deputy minister, the control is carried out according to 55 different indicators. Preparatory work for the autumn-winter season must be fully completed by October 1, 2012, and the issuance of readiness passports for heat sources and heat energy consumers by October 15. According to Gennady Trubilo, work on cleaning the inner surface of boilers, capital repairs, replacement of uneconomical boiler units and bringing them to standard specifications, insulation of heating networks, preventive inspection and repair of artesian wells, preventive maintenance and repair of water intake columns, dismantling of water towers, and others have been completed in full. Work on testing boiler equipment is in the final stage (99.5% of the target). The target for creating fuel oil reserves of 17.5 thousand tons has been fulfilled by 99%, with 17.3 thousand tons procured. The creation of fuel oil reserves is ongoing in Minsk and the Minsk region. Housing and communal services organizations have also created a reserve of wood fuel amounting to 1.568 million cubic meters, which is 98% of the planned amount. Brest, Gomel, and Mogilev regions have fully secured their wood fuel supply. Readiness passports for the housing and communal services system, according to the deputy minister, have been issued for 2641 heat sources, which is 79% of their total number. Slightly more than 50% of social facilities have also received readiness passports. In Minsk, all organizations have received readiness passports for the housing and communal services system. Regarding the preparation of Belarus's housing stock for the autumn-winter heating season, Gennady Trubilo reported that the target for roof repairs by housing and communal services organizations has been fulfilled by 93%, with 1.783 million square meters of roofs repaired out of the planned 1.918 million square meters. Repairs of wall panel joints have been completed by 98%. Thus, out of the planned 606 thousand linear meters, 595 thousand linear meters have been repaired. Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel regions, and Minsk have fully met these targets. The inspection of heat energy meters in residential buildings serviced by housing and communal services has been completed by 98%, with 16016 out of 16379 heat energy meters inspected. This work has been completed in Vitebsk, Gomel, and Mogilev regions. "Before the start of the heating season, all targets in Belarus will be met, and readiness passports will be obtained in full and on time," emphasized the Deputy Minister of Housing and Communal Services. In turn, Vyacheslav Schmidt, Head of the Department of Communal Services and Energy of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of Belarus, recalled that heating in healthcare facilities, educational institutions, and preschools is turned on when the average daily air temperature does not exceed 10 degrees Celsius for five days, and in residential buildings - plus 8 degrees Celsius. Then, heating is turned on in administrative and industrial buildings. -0-