A burst pipe in Bayfield Town Hall on Tuesday flooded the upper floor of the building where several conference rooms and offices are located.
The building is closed until further notice, according to the town’s Facebook page.
The La Plata County Clerk and Recorder’s office on the main floor of the building, which is typically open Tuesdays and Thursdays to provide motor vehicle services, will be closed this week and until further notice.
A leak in the fire suppression system caused somewhere between 1 and 2 inches of water to accumulate on the second story of the building, Public Works Director Jeremy Schulz said.
“It was quite a substantial amount,” he said.
Contractors were already on site beginning to clean up the mess, although the extent of the damage was unknown Tuesday afternoon.
The second story of Town Hall contains the town manager’s office, the community development department and several conference rooms.
Schulz was unsure weather the flooding had been caused by a pipe that froze and cracked or something else.
In a separate incident, a fire suppression system at Lumien Apartments, an affordable housing complex in Durango, also sprung a leak Tuesday.
Details were not immediately available as to the cause or extent of the damage.
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