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Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverto
ser ane e001 250 Broadway Suite 1886
New York, NY 10007
Dear Speaker Mark
In accordance with New York City Local Law 77 of 2015 Section
§9(a, the Department of Health and Menal Hygiene hereby submits the
attached repon.
Ifyou have futher questions, please do not hesitate to contact Sart
Miller, Associate Commissioner for External Affairs at (347) 396-4078 or
smiller15 @health.ny20v:
Sincerely,
Tong 0. Bassett —
Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH
‘Commissionerare ‘aw Yon cy thane oF
Health ay Ba, oH
Annual Report on the Status of Primary Indicators
Associated wi
Cooling Towers
Introduction
‘This report issubmited pursuant § 3 of Local Law 77 (LL, which requires thatthe Commissioner of
the Departmeat of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) submit othe Mayor and City Council Speaker,
bby May 15a report dealing the status ofthe Office of Building Water Supply Oversight’ (BWSO)
cooling tower program and the numberof eases of Legionnair’s disease inthe city. Specifically LLT7
quires the fllowing information forthe time period of November 2, 2015 through November 1, 2016;
1. The number of new cooling tower registrations
2. The number of notifeations of discontinued use (decommissioning) of cooling
3. The numberof annual certifications that a cooling tower was inspected, tested, deaned and
disinocted
44. The numberof reponts of tests forthe presence of microbes that reveal levels tit present 3
serious health threat received by the department of health and mental hygiene
5. The numberof cooling tower system inspections conducted
6 The aumber and types of any violations cited during soch inspections:
7. The numberof cleanings, disinfctions or other ations performed by or on behalf ofthe