Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They contain more than just steam pipes, as they carry the chilled water conduits, cable TV, computer, telephone and fire alarm lines." There are some areas with electrical power cables and natural gas pipes," says Tom Vautin, the director of the Facilities Maintenance Department...
Vautin warns that "there are high temperature steam pipes that could cause a risk to people being burned...
...entrances themselves, of which there are "hundreds," says Hawkes, are not hard to find. Many of the doors, such as those in the basements of Lowell D and Wigglesworth E, have signs that read "Steam Tunnels - Authorized Personnel Only...
Three pipes run through the system, two of them 10 inches in diameter and one 12 inches wide--carrying steam hotter than 400 degrees Fahrenheit, Hawkes says...
...function of the steam pipes is primarily to heat open space and for hot water...