More building malfunctions

Yesterday at the retreat there were other people who belonged to the Center. I learned something very interesting, kind of worrisome.

The animal facility that is part of the Center tested the shower system Thursday. Apparently, people have to shower when they leave the BSL 3 facility. Well, they filled the shower stalls with water and water leaked into the 7th floor! Holy heck was raised. The lab the water leaked into was the lab of someone important. He said that the Center should be moved to the 7th floor so we would have to deal with the water problem. Everyone has a right to be concerned. This is supposed to be a contained BSL3 lab, and the decontamination shower is leaking. The drainage pipes are double so if the inner pipe leaks there is an outer protective layer. They think a seal under the floor isn't working properly so yesterday they were going to check the showers sequentially to find exactly where the problem is centered. But they will probably have to tear out the floors and redo the seals.

All these problems in this brand new building, that will be working on some serious pathogens has me, and a lot of other people very worried.