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Flood in EMAL

On Sunday the 26th of December 2004, Kai Sun discovered that a burst pipe, caused by an unknown, but clearly irresponsible, individual who left a window open on the second floor of The Space Research Building, had caused a major flood of several rooms in EMAL. The rooms affected are:

415 - the AFMs, the NanoIndenter, the cryo-ultramicrotome and the picoindenter
417 - John Mansfield's office
421 - the Computer Room
425 - the Print Darkroom
429 - the JEOL 3011 HREM room

The worst affected rooms had at least an inch of standing water in them and all power has been turned off in those rooms. Coach's Cleaning have attempted to remove what water they can and place driers to dry up the remaining water. The affected rooms are closed until further notice. We will attempt to turn the equipment back on when the water has all dried up, but quite a lot of the electronics was standing in water for several hours. Users are warned not to attmept to restart any of the equipment themselves, as it could be several days before it is dry enough to turn on safely.


JEOL 3011 standing in a pool of water.	The AFM room completely flooded.

After the Flood - Late January 2005

Most of the mess from the flood has been cleaned up. John Mansfield is still reconstructing his office and there are two pieces of equipment that we are still testing: the Nanoscope 3A AFM and the Nanoindenter. Check with us directly for the very latest updates. We lost a couple of computers and monitors, a bunch of books, posters and photographs. It could have been a LOT worse.