About 70% of the boiler houses in the Vitebsk region have received readiness certificates for the heating season

September 24, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. In the Vitebsk region, 69.3% of heat sources have received readiness passports for the heating season, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Housing and Communal Services Department informed a BELTA correspondent. 298 out of 430 boiler houses are ready for the upcoming inter-season period. The work on obtaining readiness passports is being carried out without disruptions according to the plan, and it is planned to complete it within the established deadlines, specialists emphasized. A total of Br53 billion has been allocated for the preparation for the heating season in the region. Funds for the technical re-equipment of boiler houses amounted to Br15 billion. Br10 billion has been allocated for the heat renovation of the housing stock. Br28 billion has been allocated for the replacement of 100 km of heating networks. This task has been completed by 85.1%. According to data as of September 22, 3.5 thousand tons of fuel oil (115% of the plan), 233.8 thousand dense cubic meters of firewood (83.5% of the task), 26.1 thousand cubic meters of wood chips (130.6% respectively), 3.5 thousand tons of peat (69.6%) have been procured. Contracts have been concluded for the supply of the remaining part of the peat. -0-