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Corrections Admin Building Closes Due To Flooding
May 22, 2014
Flooding has forced the closure of the Escambia County Corrections Administrative Building on North Palafox Street and the relocation of services provided by agencies in the building.
Escambia County Corrections administrators are working to temporarily relocate to the Public Safety Building, located at 6575 North W Street. The goal is to have the Corrections’ administrative services reopened at the Public Safety Building on Friday, May 23.
The Corrections Administrative Building serves customers needing to pay court ordered fees, including cost of supervision, community service and worthless checks. Fees will need to be paid for at the Corrections Department’s temporary location at the Public Safety Building once it opens on Friday, May 23.
Individuals participating in the pre-trial release program or those who are on probation should not be impacted by this event. Since the original flood event in late April, pre-trial release participants have been directed to report to the Blanchard Judicial Building, 190 West Government Street. Pre-trial release participants should continue to report to the Blanchard Judicial Building until further notice.
Escambia County Probation Officers were relocated to the Central Office Complex, 3363 West Park Place, nearly two weeks ago and those needing to report to their Probation Officer will continue to do so at the Central Office Complex.
Child support hearings have been relocated until further notice to the Juvenile Justice Center, 1800 St. Mary’s Avenue.
The building was first flooded during the April 29 rain event. Sometime between the close of business Wednesday and the start of business Thursday, the pump system used to remove water from the building’s subbasement failed causing water to rise into the basement level of the building. Escambia County Facilities Department employees discovered approximately five feet of standing water in the basement when they reported to work Thursday morning.
As a result of this flooding issue, the Escambia Corrections Administration Building has been closed and all utilities servicing the building have been turned off. The overnight flooding of the basement has compromised the building’s air conditioning system, plumbing and mechanical operations.
There were no injuries associated with the flooding of the Corrections Administration Building.
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2 Responses to “Corrections Admin Building Closes Due To Flooding”
The water table is so high from all the rain it seeps into basement through walls and floor.water seeping out all over this town due to high water table.Build buildings in low areas of town there going to flood.
Have one building blow up after a flooding incident and all of sudden it looks like the BCC has new rules to turn off all utilities to and building and declare it off limits to all employees and visitors.
How does the basement of a building flood 3 weeks after a major rain? Or is it that this building routinely floods to a point that employees know they cant use the bottom two drawers of filing cabinets due to how often the basement floods.