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Riverside maintenance director warns aging boilers, pipes and HVAC left district 'playing with some borrow time'
Summary
The district’s director of maintenance reported recent winter-related failures — a burned supply fan, a leaking hot-water line and a damaged media-center heating coil — and urged faster facilities planning and condition assessments, including a proposed aerial thermal scan of roofs and lots.
The district’s Director of Maintenance reported multiple equipment failures tied to an unusually cold period and urged the board to accelerate facilities planning to address decades-old piping and mechanical systems.
The director told the board that a supply fan at one school burned out and staff sourced a motor from Macedonia to restore heat the same day. He said a hot-water circulator line at John R developed leaks while the media-center heating coil developed three holes; maintenance brazed the coil and…
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