Updated 12/05/2011 01:17 PM
Loud Noise At Queens Plant Was Steam Release, Officials Say
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Long Island City residents were jolted from their sleep Monday morning following a prolonged steam release at a nearby power plant.
Authorities are investigating noise complaints around the TransCanada plant at 40th Avenue and Vernon.
Locals say it started around 6 a.m. and lasted as long as an hour.
The noise could be heard as far away as Roosevelt Island.
Officials from the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation say that it was just the sound of steam being released by the plant.
"It sounded like, I don't know, something exploding, it was just a real loud noise and it just woke everybody up," said one Long Island City resident.
"At first I thought something fell down, but then I closed the window. My wife, my daughter all wake up, but I don't see anything, I just see steam coming out from there, that's all," said another.
Roosevelt Island officials says the situation was not hazardous and no injuries have been reported.
NY1 has reached out to TransCanada for comment.