Who knew Salt Lake County’s love affair with the environment would have come to this? A four-floor rain forest inside the county’s government complex.
Truth is, the county never meant for it to happen.
And staffers probably wouldn’t use the word “love” to talk about their doused documents, showered computers and doused offices.
A broken fire sprinkler on the Salt Lake County Government Center’s fourth floor soaked offices sometime early Wednesday morning. Water pooled on the top floor and then trickled through ceiling tiles into the offices below.
The leak wasn’t discovered until 6 a.m. - after the water already had reached the ground floor.
The county treasurer gave his staffers the day off. The auditor retained a skeleton crew. And the facility management folks worked overtime with Utah Disaster Kleenup to sop up the mess.
As for the damage? Associate Director of Administrative Services Patrick Leary hasn’t determined that yet, but said many computers have been sent away to dry.
At least the county can be sure of one thing:
“If there is ever a fire,” Leary said, “we know we have enough pressure in the line.”
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