Irpin is preparing its water supply and sewerage facilities for winter. Mayor Oleksandr Pashchynskyi and the acting head of the municipal utility Irpinvodokanal, Oleh Pletianyi, checked how ready they are, Irpin City Council reported.
Oleksandr Pashchynskyimayor of IrpinIt is important that critical infrastructure keeps working steadily in the event of power outages
Generators at key sites
Irpinvodokanal has a fleet of stationary and mobile generators supplying its key water supply and sewerage facilities. The largest sites have a main and a backup power source. At one of the utility’s production sites, for example, there is a main 420 kW generator and a backup of the same capacity.
Photo: Irpin City CouncilWhat changed this year
This year the utility optimised how it uses its generators: several wells have been combined into a backup power scheme fed by a single generator. A group of sites can thus run from one source, and fuel will be used more efficiently.
The community is also continuing to work with Ukrainian and international partners and donors to obtain additional equipment and increase backup capacity. In neighbouring Bucha, meanwhile, the borehole in Sklozavod now runs on a solar plant with storage.
Photo: Irpin City CouncilOnline services are back
On 24 September the utility’s website and the bot Irpin residents use to submit meter readings temporarily went down: a russian strike knocked out the data centre that hosted these services. They were restored the next day — readings can again be submitted via the Telegram bot @irpen_voda_bot or in the personal account on the Irpinvodokanal website.
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