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Salt Lake City library avoids ‘catastrophic’ damage, remains closed for sewer line repair
The Salt Lake Metropolis Public Library’s Important Library skilled sewer line failure Thursday and will likely be closed till additional discover to bear repairs. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — It is unclear how lengthy Salt Lake Metropolis Public Library’s Important Library will stay closed due to a sewer line failure; nevertheless, Salt Lake Metropolis Public Library System mentioned Friday {that a} leak within the line was detected earlier than it did any harm to the constructing or the supplies inside.
Library officers introduced by way of a submit on social media Thursday that the downtown Salt Lake Metropolis library will likely be closed “till additional discover” to bear repairs to the sewer line.
“The principle sewer line skilled vital failure and requires in depth repairs,” the submit reads.
Quinn McQueen, the Salt Lake Metropolis Public Library System’s assistant director, mentioned Friday that the library’s facility administration crew seen a small leak on Wednesday. Plumbing contractors had been introduced in and decided that the road must be changed.
It was additionally detected earlier than it broken any of the books and different supplies within the constructing, and the constructing itself.
“Whereas that is certainly a vital restore, it’s not catastrophic,” she mentioned in a press release.
McQueen added that there’s at the moment no timetable for when the library will reopen. Any due dates and holds on the Important Library will likely be prolonged, or patrons can return any of their books or different supplies to any of the opposite neighborhood department areas.
The seven neighborhood department areas of the library are nonetheless open at their regular hours.
The Important Library opened in 2003, and subsequent month marks the twentieth anniversary of its grand opening. Updates on the library’s reopening are anticipated to be posted on its web site and will likely be despatched by way of social media and the library’s e-newsletter.