Two clogged pipes left flooding in the basement of Colonial residence hall on Sunday afternoon.

The rainstorm that began Saturday night and continued throughout Sunday is not believed to be a contributing factor, according to Community Advisor David Drucker, senior.

“There was about two inches of water throughout the entire basement,” Drucker said. “It was brought up to me about 3:00 p.m. I have no idea how long it was going before then.”

Senior Katie Gaughn was doing laundry when she discovered a leak.

“When I was putting my clothes in the dryer the floor seemed a little bit wet,” Gaughn said. She left and later returned downstairs to see pipes behind the machines bursting.

“It was about ankle-deep in water,” Gaughn said.

Drucker said Simpson’s maintenance cleaned the basement out and had dryers and fans going.

By 9:30 p.m., most of the storage lockers in the basement had been emptied and a majority of the water was cleaned up.