WARREN - County employees from several departments spent Monday removing records from the former Wean Building after a sprinkler system pipe inside burst Sunday night.

A sleeve joining two 4-inch pipes burst on the fourth floor, sending water down the staircase and soaking files on lower floors for the county Clerk of Courts and Prosecutor's offices and 11th District Court of Appeals.

Scanners and a computer being used to scan county Probate Court records were not damaged. Probate Judge Thomas Swift said he intends to move the equipment to the Stone Building when room there is available.

Tribune Chronicle / R. Michael Semple A sprinkler system pipe inside the former Wean Building that burst on Sunday caused water damage to several boxes of county records. County workers spent Monday removing the files.

Swift said all probate archives are being digitized to go on-line and old docket books will be sent to storage facilities in Pennsylvania caves.

''We moved once before when the roof was leaking,'' Swift said. ''This was a work in progress.''

County Commissioner Frank Fuda said the county's print shop on the basement floor remained dry with no damage after Sunday's episode. Also, no records held by the Recorder's Office were damaged.

''Of 3,000 boxes (of court files), about 450 were damaged and will have to be freeze-dried or chamber dried before they are moved,'' said Lynn Wallace-Smith, the record manager for non-probate court records and other records in the Recorder's Office

She said all 3,000 boxes were ready to be moved to the former First Place Bank building that the county bought last year, but space at the bank building was not prepared yet. File boxes were still being moved Monday.

Gary Hetzel with the Prosecutor's Office was removing case files from outdated criminal cases, some of them from death row inmates who had been executed.

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HAVELOCK | Havelock officials said cold weather likely caused a sprinkler system pipe to burst in a vacant restaurant on Friday.

A driver noticed water cascading from the roof of the former Carolina Grill restaurant at the corner of U.S. 70 and Tourist Center Drive in Havelock around 12:42 p.m. and called authorities.

A passerby saw all the water and called the station, said Havelock Police Sgt. John Austin, who responded to the scene. There was no way that you could have gone by and not seen it. It was like Niagara Falls coming out of there.

Fire Marshal John Lewis said that temperatures that dipped into the teens and lower 20s the past couple of nights may have caused the pipes to freeze and then burst, causing the massive leak.

We have a case of frost bite, Lewis said. We have a frozen pipe that was outside on the sprinkler system and was exposed to the cold.

Lewis estimated that several hundred gallons of water flowed out of the sprinkler system both inside and outside of the building.

He said the water appeared to cause part of the ceiling to collapse outside and appeared to have resulted in two to three inches of water being inside the dining room.

The 7,172 square-foot building is owned by Carolina East Investments LLC. It was built in 2008 and has a tax value of $793,000 according to Craven County tax records. The restaurant closed in 2013.

Id like to see this place used again, said Mike Cerjan, a Havelock building inspector. We dont like to see any vacant buildings. Its a nice size restaurant.

The owners could not be reached for comment and no damage estimate was unavailable.

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A broken water pipe has caused flooding at Chicago's Union Station for the second time this week, officials said.

About 4 p.m. we had another break in the sprinkler system, in nearly the same place it occurred earlier this week, Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.

Pipes running in the ceiling overhead burst, leaving a pool about 2 inches deep and 40 feet by 40 feet wide.

No one was injured or splashed by the water, which is not drinkable but used to put out fires.

At 5 p.m., water was still being sopped up and the lead shut off.

The latest flooding was not immediately affecting trains or commuters, according to Metra spokesman Michael Gillis.

Metra was notified by Amtrak that a water main leak had flooded the south concourse, and maintenance workers were called to the scene, Gillis said.

Metra and Amtrak officials were assisting commuters wishing to depart on BNSF, SouthWest Service and Heritage Corridor trains on tracks 6 and 8.

Friday's water line break was the second such incident at Union Station this week.

Magliari said the sprinkler pipes in the ceiling above the south concourse area were damaged during last winter's polar vortex, and again this week by the subzero temperatures.

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HARTFORDThe John C. Clark, Jr. Elementary & Middle School in Hartford will remain closed for the rest of the week due to the discovery of chemicals in the new sprinkler system.

As of Monday, Jan. 12, the students will be relocated to alternate school sites as officials conduct further testing.

The school was closed on Wednesday, the first day back from winter break.

The school says this is in an abundance of caution as facility maintenance issues are resolved. Low levels of PCBs were found in the air before winter break and in tests since. PCBs are polychlorinated biphenyls, which are industrial chemicals that the EPA considers a potential carcinogen.

The sprinkler system was tested, causing concerns for the air quality.

A meeting will be held tomorrowin the Salvation Army Offices at 100 Nelson Street so parents and families can have any questions answered.

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As of Monday, January 12, 2015, the students and staff of Clark Elementary School at 75 Clark Street will be relocated to alternate school sites as we conduct further testing to determine the source of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the air.

There was no requirement or directive from any regulatory agency to evacuate the building. Given that the testing process involves contractors working at various locations around the school, we believe that this would have been disruptive to the educational setting. As such, we made the determination that it was in the best interest of students and staff, with an abundance of caution, to temporarily relocate to alternate school sites. We made this determination as soon as we received the air quality results.

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