At 4:35am today, UVA Chief Facilities Officer Donald Sundgren received a call about a large leak in the Gilmer Hall basement. The basement was covered by a 3”-deep mixture of mud and water.
“We’re cleaning it up now,” Sundgren tells C-VILLE. “We know the cause.”
According to Sundgren, the leak is tied to ongoing construction on Alderman Road, where crews are working to connect the new first-year dorms to UVA’s underground steam tunnel system. Throw in the recent wet weather, and Gilmer Hall developed something of a soggy basement.
The leak, Sundgren says, represents a situation that facilities management is “kind of used to.” He says that the University has many issues with leaks in buildings. While Sundgren has not received word on the impact of the Gilmer Hall leak, he believes that clean-up will be swift.