By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Hell below: the mystery underground heat that’s plaguing downtown buildings

Banker & Tradesman’s Steve Adams gets straight to the point on this story: “Piping hot tap water emerging from his cold-water faucets was a red flag that something unusual was occurring in the neighborhood where Robert Qua bought a condominium in 2019.” … We’re talking groundwater temperatures in the Leather District hitting 140 to 150 degrees, far above the normal 50 to 60 degrees, and sometimes people even see boiling water ‘bubbling out of manhole covers.’ … Oh, they have their suspicions about who and what’s causing the problem.  And it doesn’t involve some pointy-eared guy with a pitchfork.

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