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Leaking men's room makes for a swampy State House

1:23 PM Fri, Jul 03, 2009 | Permalink
By Cynthia Needham

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The flood of legislation never materialized from the State House this week, but the water did.

From the men's bathroom that is.

A broken flush feature on a urinal in a first-floor men's room led to a not-so-minor flood that swamped the marble rotunda with more than half an inch of water Friday morning, creating a soggy (and ridiculously slippery) situation in the landmark building.

We here at Political Scene are not normally in the habit of bathroom talk, but this one was hard to avoid.

Water poured down the stairs and through cracks in the ceiling, drenching the stairs and the basement below.

"Because of the force of the flow, it allowed it to really spread out," said State House Superintendent Ed Butler who was on the scene with a crew that worked quickly to mop up the mess. Butler reported that the building did not sustain any permanent damage.