Vicinity Energy is planning a half-mile pipe from the Back Bay to the Fenway Park area to provide steam heat to all the new buildings going up or planned on and near Brookline Avenue. Read more.
steam pipes
Spoilermatt avoids getting covered in asbestos as he videos the ruptured New Chardon Street steam pipe:
The Globe reports:
A three-story apartment building on New Chardon Street was evacuated today after a steam line ruptured beneath the road outside and possibly released asbestos into the air, the Boston Fire Department said. ...
Prediction: Tom Menino will say "enough is enough" and demand that Trigen actually do something about its exploding steam pipes.
Way back on Sept. 12:
Steam pipe explodes in Financial District.
Oh, joy: The pipe, covered with asbestos, showered brown sludge on four people, who had to wait for a hazmat team to arrive and decontaminate them before they could be taken to the hospital.
The Herald has more on the 11:45 a.m. explosion.