Bwog brings you horror stories of this school’s nightmarish water system.

Carman showers:

  • One Bwogger’s shower ceiling is currently caving in and dripping, forcing them to risk their life whenever they venture in.
  • Another has had their entire bathroom ceiling collapse, raining chunks of plaster down into the shower.
  • One Carman shower’s roof exploded and poured water everywhere.
  • Most Carman showers only have adequate water pressure and temperature at certain times (often the afternoon or very late at night, while at peak hours in morning and evening it can get quite dicey).

Carman sinks:

  • It can take 10 minutes for one Bwogger’s perpetually clogged sink to drain out the dirty water that sometimes fills it to the brim.
  • An entire Carman floor suffered from brown water in the sinks and toilets for a whole week this winter.
  • Another sink frequently fills with water and “black soil stuff.” Eugh.
  • My own sink, when I try to run cold water at maximum flow or whatever, physically shakes and makes a rattling noise that can be heard from the floor lounge.

Brooks Russian Roulette:

  • One of the showers in the Brooks 4 bathroom has incredible pressure and the other one is little more than a drip, the sinks are either completely off or Niagara Falls (there is no in between), and one of the toilets feels like the porcelain is going to break when you sit on it!

Schapiro scents:

  • The Schapiro 7 women’s bathroom has smelled like mold/mildew for months, for unclear reasons (we’ll give you a bounty if you find the leak).

McBain:

  • 50% of the time the water in the sinks of the McBain 8 bathrooms is so hot that you literally can’t wash your hands (at least without suffering grievous injury).
  • Not strictly a plumbing issue, but McBain bathrooms, perhaps as a consequence of their unique plumbing issues, reportedly have their own endemic species of fly.

John Jay:

  • Two showers on the 9th floor are completely unusable, because their water temperature unpredictably alternates from scalding to arctic with absolutely no middle ground.
  • The only proper water bottle filler in the entire building was disabled for months.

Dodge:

  • The men’s pool locker room showers are extremely unusual—not only do the temperature controls on each shower go in different directions compared to their comrades, but the direction they operate in changes unpredictably from day to day (if you use the same shower on different days, or different showers on the same day, the temperature knob might work in opposite directions—and if you’ve used two showers that seem to work in opposite directions, on another day they might work the same way).

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