Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Discuss Deafening Noise Coming From Transcanada Ravenswood Power Plant Steam Release Last Monday - Was Steam Release Planned Or Not, Community Liaison Sought To Prevent Future Occurrences

An update to posts earlier this week on the deafening noise that woke up and frightened many Roosevelt Island residents coming from Transcanada's Big Allis Ravenswood Power Plant steam release early Monday morning at around 6 AM.

The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) December 7 meeting included a discussion of this incident. RIRA President Matt Katz reported that the Ravenswood Power Plant's previous owner, Keyspan, had a community liaison who was able to limit the planned steam releases to the daylight hours. At the present time, no similar Transcanada community representative exists. Mr. Katz, along with Roosevelt Island elected officials led by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer are attempting to contact Transcanada officials to prevent a similar occurrence happening again.

Concern was expressed during the discussion regarding the planned steam release at such an early hour and if it was not a planned steam release, what was the reason for it happening.

Here's the RIRA discussion on incident.