The high-rise building at Lake Anne, the Heron House, has been without heat since Saturday afternoon. Around 4 p.m. a valve in the boiler room broke causing the room to flood and draining heat out of the building.
According to Ken Greenway, chief engineer for Lake Anne and Reston, temperatures inside the residential units of the Heron House were getting near the freezing mark. A crew from Densel Company arrived at the site early on Monday morning and set up a temporary boiler in a truck outside the building. They connected the truck to the boiler room with two heavy pipes and were nearly finished welding them together at 11 p.m. on Monday night. "They should be done soon," said Greenway at that time.
Greenway said the pipes and the truck would serve the building for about a week, because that is how long it takes for the necessary parts to fix the problem in the boiler room to arrive. Meanwhile the truck and the pipes will have to serve Heron House residents. As far as the crew's very long Monday shift is concerned, Greenway said, "It's a lot of work for a temporary solution."