by Erin Turner | Mar 4, 2014 | News Slider
Update: Water returned to Fanning Hall late last night (estimated around 3:30 a.m. or so), but a temporary shutdown is expected today as further repairs are expected. Below is an email sent to hall residents by Sain. “Our amazing facilities team just left our building at 3:30am this morning. The broken pipe fixture has been temporarily fixed and will be permanently fixed tomorrow when the proper parts can be located. In order for the repair to made tomorrow the water will have to be turned off for a short time. Please be patient as the repairs are made and more than anything please thank our facilities workers, Sam and Chad for temporary fix so that we can have water. I am so sorry for the disruption in our evening with this issue and appreciate your great attitudes.” Previous story below. Residents of Fanning Hall will be without running water for the meantime after a pipe burst in a suite. “Tonight we had a pipe burst in the bathroom on the third floor in suite 307 around 11pm,” Fanning RHD Laurie Sain wrote in an email to dorm residents. “In order to stop the water from flooding any more suites, the water to the entire building had to be turned off,” Sain wrote. The pipes sent water down the staircase and into the courtyard. A dorm-wide evacuation did not occur, but the residents in suite 207 are residing in the RA’s suite for the night. The water in the entire building has been shut off as of now to avoid flooding in anymore suites. “The plumber is on his way to assess the pipe and hopefully fix it...
