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Burst water pipe floods Davenport dorms

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, January 14, 2008

The only possessions Jacqueline Gosnell ’08 has to start the new semester were in the suitcases she brought back from home.

Hot-water pipes burst in Davenport College’s K and E entryways last week, damaging three suites and forcing Gosnell and eight other students to relocate to different dorms for up to two months. The cause of the plumbing failures is still unknown, Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld said.

The affected students returned from their breaks to find their rooms in shambles, they said.

“It really looks like a bomb exploded in there,” Claire Knodell...

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