Flooding in Mark-Jefferson: True or False?

Posted on January 22, 2013 by | 2 Comments

I was just meeting with a student who told me her ground floor/basement-level class in Mark-Jefferson was canceled today because there was some kind of water main break and “a lot” of water down there. Does that sound right to anyone?

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2 Responses to Flooding in Mark-Jefferson: True or False?

  1. Once a Huron | January 22, 2013 at 3:08 pm | Reply

    I did hear there was a flooding problem in MJ – but I thought they were trying to move the classes that were affected to different rooms/buildings.

  2. Lisa Klopfer | January 23, 2013 at 7:29 am | Reply

    Hello all! Sooner or later we’ll learn about it, but what we saw from the Library was water erupting through a crack in the pavement on the circular drive between Halle and the parking structure (i.e., not on the MJ side of Halle) yesterday morning, and pouring down the street, creating a sheet of ice. EMU staff closed off the street, and later in the day brought in an escavator to dig up a big hole. By the time I left around 5:30 the hole was still there, the street closed, and a traffic snarl had developed on Oakwood caused by drivers wanting to turn into the closed street. As far as I know, there were no water problems in Halle (knock wood. it was this time last year that a pipe broke causing the flood that has resulting in the ARC disaster).

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