Following the publication of “RG” (“The trial continues, the basement is floating”, “Economy of the Ural Federal District” dated July 25, 2024), in which we said that due to the moratorium on business during inspections, the order of the State Housing Inspectorate to drain the basement of the house has not been fulfilled for a whole year. The prosecutor’s office intervened in the situation. To check the scene of the disaster, the prosecutor of the Traktorozavodsky district Alexey Glazkov came to the scene and during the inspection personally noted that the basement was flooded with storm and sewage water due to a malfunction of the external sewage system.
As a result, a proposal was submitted to the general director of the relevant municipal unitary enterprise to eliminate the violations. After which the enterprise urgently ensured the departure of the guard team and organized the necessary work. “The issue of actually eliminating the violations remains under the control of the district prosecutor’s office,” said Natalia Mamaeva, representative of the regional prosecutor’s office.
The problem, as we have already written, was a different interpretation of the law on the organization of state and municipal control. Having not received approval from the prosecutor’s office to re-inspect the facility, GZHI turned to arbitration to force the company’s employees to fulfill their obligations. But the courts instructed officials that they could only intervene in the situation after a second order, if it was not fulfilled after the first. Fortunately for local residents, the prosecutor’s office is authorized to conduct independent inspections of the maintenance of the housing stock, and after our publication, they immediately made use of this right.
Meanwhile
Prolonged rains and the preemptive release of water from the Shershnevsky reservoir in Chelyabinsk led to the flooding of not only basements, but also entire streets in the Leninsky district. Its residents, apparently wanting to get closer to the mayor’s office, cleverly named their quarter “Kotovskoye Boloto residential complex” – now it is only possible to move around in waders, and in some areas the water is waist-deep. As the city administration explained, the problem arose due to the large-scale repair of the sewers. Mayor Natalya Kotova has already demanded at a staff meeting to speed up the work and put the second collector into operation by the end of this week. The investigative authorities are conducting an investigation, and the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, has taken control of the situation.
