Sprinkler system project still underway for jail

YORK – Work is still underway for the installation of a fire suppression system in the York County Jail.

​This past week, York County Commissioner Chairman Randy Obermier told his fellow board members how he and Brian Lewis, maintenance director at the courthouse, “did a walk-through of the sprinkler project which was 50% done at that point.”
This project takes longer than a typical suppression system installation because considerations have to be given to the fact inmates are housed there 24 hours a day, every day. Security measures have to be taken and inmates have to be moved to different cells when work is being done in certain places. And the materials/design have to be of a certain grade to make sure they are safe and secure in a penitentiary setting.
Obermier said the project “should be finished by the holidays, sounds like this have gone very well.”