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Juvenile detention center undergoes massive repairs after flooding
By durangoherald.com
Published: 03/24/2017

Denise Velasquez was in Pod B when the fire alarm sounded.

“When an alarm goes off, the first thing you look for is smoke, so I went looking for smoke and instead I found water,” said Velasquez, the shift supervisor on duty when a sprinkler broke at Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center, flooding about half the building with up to 3 inches of water. “It was awful. I couldn’t sweep fast enough to keep the water out.”

It has been more than five weeks since an estimated 1,000 gallons soaked the juvenile detention center in Durango. Students have been relocated 167 miles to Grand Junction or 272 miles to Pueblo while repairs are being made.

The Jan. 29 incident was the result of a sprinkler pipe that broke high above the gymnasium floor, between the roof and the ceiling. A heating unit failed, which caused the pipe to freeze and break at one of the joints. The ceiling held most of the water before collapsing like a waterfall.

Water soaked the gym floor, two detention pods, several offices and half the dining area. Cleanup crews had to drill holes in the walls to allow them to drain, said Karen Murray, program director of Rite of Passage, which operates the juvenile detention center.

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