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The repairs to flooding damage in O’Pake Fitness & Recreation Center are expected to be completed over Spring Break. PHOTO: ZACH PODOLNICK ’26/THE HAWK

University buildings face floods due to freezing temperatures

Vincent Kornacki ’25, Managing Editor February 26, 2025

Low winter temperatures caused pipes to freeze, resulting in flooding in several buildings on the Hawk Hill and University City campuses. Merion Hall and Griffith Hall were flooded at the beginning...

Isabella Korbal ‘25 moved her belongings from her dorm in Rashford Hall with help from her sister.
PHOTOS: JULIA HOLZ ’23/THE HAWK

Broken sprinkler floods parts of Rashford, displacing students

Max Kelly October 5, 2022

On the evening of Friday, Sept. 23, Rashford Hall flooded on the east wing starting on the fourth floor all the way down to the second floor, causing rooms to become unlivable and damaging residents’...

Cassidy Robbins ’21 and Jenna Jachimiak ’21(left) look over the flooded Venice Island parking lot, where Robbins’ car was parked. PHOTOS: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Manayunk recovers from Ida

Tim Spinner, owner of Taqueria Amor on Main Street in Manayunk, was “one of the lucky ones” to make it through the flooding last week unscathed. “We had water in our 12-by-12 basement down there,...

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