Mykolaiv CHP said that this heating season salt water is used only in case of accidents

During the 2023/2024 heating season, water from the estuary is poured into Mykolayiv CHP only in emergency cases. Thus, the networks of the enterprise are filled with salt water by 8%, while last year the systems were filled with estuarine water by 91%.

This is evidenced by the infographic published by the CHP.

In preparation for the start-up of heat in 2022, the CHP used mainly water from the Bug estuary. The systems were 91% filled with pipe-destructive salt water. Another 2% of water was taken from Mykolaivvodokanal and 7% from the company's own wells.

This year, the CHP notes, water from the estuary is used only in emergency situations. Thus, the share of salt water is 8%. 62% of the water in the networks comes from the water supply company, and 30% comes from the CHP's own wells.

As a reminder, the 2023-24 heating season in Mykolaiv began on November 14. As of the evening of November 18, the Mykolaiv thermal power plant company connected only half of the total number of consumers in Mykolaiv to heat. At the same time, in September, the CHP reported that it was 92% ready for the start of the heating season.

As of the evening of November 20, dozens of apartment buildings remained without heating in Mykolaiv. In several districts of the city, repair works of heating networks continued. Then the first deputy of Mykolaiv city mayor Vitalii Lukov announced that they plan to connect all residential buildings of Mykolaiv to heat in a few days.

However, on the evening of November 21, there were still more than 400 apartment buildings in the city without heating.

The Mykolaiv thermal power plant said that delays in the supply of heat to multi-apartment buildings occurred due to large gusts on the main pipelines of the heating lines.

On November 30, the CHP reported that due to emergency works in three more areas of the city, residents will be left without heating again for some time. However, the company immediately announced the good news — according to forecasters, the weather conditions in Mykolaiv are expected to improve.

Numerous gusts of CHP networks are connected, in particular, with the fact that last heating season the enterprise used salty water from the estuary, which accelerates the corrosion of already outdated pipes. In contrast to this, purified water from wells was poured into «Mykolaivovoblteploenerho», as NikVesti wrote in the article «Winter is near: What will the heating season be like in Mykolaiv?». Thus, the start of both heating seasons began without disruptions and significant accidents in the houses served by the regional heat and power utility.