Fewer cooling towers inspected in first six months of 2025
The number of cooling tower inspections in 2025 has dropped by about two-thirds compared to the first six months of 2017, the year when the city first started the inspections.
This line graph shows the decline of the number of cooling-tower inspections conducted by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene between the first six months of 2017 and the first six months of 2025.