Emergency repairs Wednesday will affect steam and hot water system

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In order to accommodate urgent repairs to the campus steam system, there will be a six-hour interruption of service to the Keele campus steam and hot water systems on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 8am until 2pm. The interruption of service will affect the hot water and heating steam supply to all campus buildings.

Every effort will be made to reduce the outage time. Sterilizing steam will not be available for the above duration

Buildings that have domestic hot water tanks should retain some residual heat, buildings that have flash units will not have any domestic hot water during the shutdown.

Domestic Cold water will not be affected.

For questions or concerns, contact John Vasiliou, chief engineer at ext. 55437. For any concerns during the interruption, contact Security Services at ext. 33333.