New Cooling Tower Testing Rules Aim to Quell Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks (opens in new tab)

New York City property owners with working cooling towers — the cylinder rooftop structures spiking the city’s skyline — will soon be required to step up their testing for the Legionella bacterium. It’s the city’s latest effort to prevent outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed at least seven people in Harlem last summer. A spokesman […] The post New Cooling Tower Testing Rules Aim to Quell Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreaks appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.