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City moves forward with emergency boiler replacements after jail loses heat and inmates transported out of Lodi
Summary
City staff said emergency replacements for two failed boilers were necessary after one unit failed and a second had been offline; the city temporarily closed its jail and transported inmates to San Joaquin County, and council approved the emergency procurement as part of consent actions.
City staff told the Lodi City Council that an emergency replacement of two large boilers was needed after repeated failures left the city’s 24-hour police station and jail without heat. Sean Nathan (public works staff) said one boiler had been out of service about a year and the second failed within weeks, forcing staff to use portable heaters and eventually close the jail.
“[The] jail did go down because the temperature was too low. It was closed for that entire duration about 2 to 3 weeks,” said Captain Versteeg of the…
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