After a disruption that began Wednesday, the 46 buildings affected by the defective "high temperature hot water loop" under the Main Green regained heat and hot water at 6 p.m. Saturday, according to Stephen Maiorisi, acting vice president of Facilities Management.
The hot water line sprung a leak Wednesday evening, prompting emergency repairs.
Because of the snow storm, Facilities Management postponed further work on the loop until 6:30 a.m. Monday morning. Some buildings may lose heat and hot water again at about 10 a.m. when testing will resume.
"This is necessary as we continue to test, in order to further isolate the area in need of repair," wrote Derek Henries, manager of the Service Response Center, in a notice sent to Maiorisi on Saturday.
According to an e-mail written by Henries and sent to all on campus on Friday by Thomas Forsberg, associate director of Residential Life, Facilities Management implemented a "secondary water feed" so that repairs could continue without further interruption of heat to the buildings. "This has allowed us to isolate and lessen the number of buildings that will experience a decrease in temperature and/or temporary interruption to heating systems as repairs begin again," Henries wrote.
Still, at least one student had not fully regained heat and hot water by Sunday evening. Arielle Baskin-Sommers '07, a resident of Grad Center, said although she and her suitemates have hot water, their heat has been irregular.
"We had heat last night at midnight but then it shut off in the middle of the night. It came on again midday today but now no one has heat in the suite," she said.
