A Voice from the Eastern Door
A Voice from the Eastern Door
The water dropped down from the ceiling.
The wreckage.
Watermarks on a box show how high the water was, even at the opposite end of the school where the break occurred.
The break occurred in the Headstart’s room’s ceiling.
The Mohawk room is being turned into the K4 classroom.
Service Master brought in equipment to dry out the school.
The water dropped down from the ceiling.
The wreckage.
Watermarks on a box show how high the water was, even at the opposite end of the school where the break occurred.
The break occurred in the Headstart’s room’s ceiling.
The Mohawk room is being turned into the K4 classroom.
Service Master brought in equipment to dry out the school.
On Saturday a water main at Kana:takon School broke, sending hundreds of gallons of water throughout the entire school.
The break happened in the Head Start classroom at the southern end of the school. Water used for the school’s sprinkler system was pumped into the school for several hours before a floating refrigerator set off the motion detector of the school’s alarm system.
The Head Start classroom was completely destroyed, but the water poured out into the hallways, into each classroom of the school as well, all the way up to the gymnasium at the northern end of the school.
Water marks at the opposite end of where the breakage occurred showed that the water was nearly 2 feet high.
The school was closed this Monday and Tuesday while crews from Mohawk Council of Akwesasne’s Department of Technical Services and Cornwall’s ServiceMaster worked to pump out the water and begin a massive cleanup project.
“An Emergency Team meeting of Ahkwesahsne Mohawk Board of Education administrative staff was held at the Board Office to discuss and make plans to address the situation,” said Barry Montour, Director of Education for AMBE. “Two plans were created for different scenarios, with timelines and people responsible.”
The school is a Grade 7 and 8 school, with classrooms for kindergarten, pre-kindergarten and Head Start.
The Head Start students will be moved to Tsi Snaihne School for the remainder of the year as their classroom was almost a total loss and will need extensive renovations.
Students in the K4 classroom right next door will be returning to school on Tuesday, Feb 17 where there new classroom will be the school’s Mohawk language room.
The K5 classroom, though not extensively damaged, will still need lengthy cleaning and drying and students in that class will be moved to the school’s library.
With round the clock crews working to dry out the school, Grade 7 and 8 students were expected to return on Thursday, Feb. 12. On Wednesday, Feb. 11 they were called back into school but taken on a field trip.
Principal Lynn McCarthy said that the cleanup process has gone quite smoothly despite how much water was actually in the school. She said the crews have been very thorough.
Health Canada is planning to inspect the school before the students are returned.
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