Aug 11, 2025
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The Municipal Ministry of Health proposes stricter rules to overcome the legionair, along with the outbreak of one of the worst events of the years that influenced Harlem.
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New York City will start rules more scenes to cool bad learning towers in Harm.
The City Health Department plans to annoy the compulsory, penalties and reporting requirements to form official programs.
There were three deaths and 81 virlegity of Harlem in the last two weeks, by the twenty-four hospital agrees.
The officials of the Ministry of Health, contacted by the post, insisted that the rules revised for the cooling of the towers worked before Harlem's outbreak, that he said that he had been mastered.
The legal legal policy has been processed in front of the next spring.
The warning in the capital record is based on the rules that are proposed to correct the current rules.
Add reviews in a new demand for the counsels of the form.Must be delivered by the building that has been used by the verification program in the maintenance program in Yorkork.
The goal is to "improve the implementation," said the Bureau of Science and Engineering Department of Health.
New York is a lawyer Yakan Long, who is an expert in Legags, saying "but not following the owner of the building."
Lange said the current sanctions were not difficult to force the fulfillment of tens of thousands of dollars.
He said it is troubling that 11 of the 43 towers inspected in Harlem — about 25% — tested positive for Legionella.
Also, the observers are carried into the city center in the Tapoanilla in the fields in the fields, as shown in Geethamists.
The department inspected 5,200 coolers and issued more than 48,000 offenses to building owners in 2017 after a new law came into effect after a deadly epidemic in the Legionnaire in the Bronx.
This year, the city reveals a full part of the amount of estimation, a low record where it is not included in 2020 and 2021
People can catch legionnasis from water systems such as a cooling tower.
It can take between 12 and 14 days of exposure to droplets to start the disease, according to the city's health commissioner, Dr. Michelle Morse.
The current rules for building owners with cooling towers show some penalties for 31 different categories.
A maximum fine of $ 1,000 for the first offense and $ 2,000 per additional offense is: take immediate action for positive Legionella results;No sampling for notification to the department; improper use of recovery or rainwater;The inability to release the Legionella water drops or a lack of a maintenance program.
The owner has now faced the first punishment of $ 500 for failing to follow and inspection of Legionnaires or August when Legionella is a threat.
At this point, the city refused to provide more details about advanced implementation.
