On Feb. 2, students who reside in the ROTH Apartments received an email regarding hot water in their apartments. A failure in the main hot water heater caused a lack of hot water, and the heater was restored within six hours of the failure.

A temporary set up was made — ROTH residents may have noted seeing a large propane tank outside of the building. 

Pete Moris, director of University Relations, wrote in an email “there is no outage, it just takes longer to get hot water to the rooms until we can get the main hot water heater up and running.”

Moris added, “We have the necessary part on order but are still awaiting delivery.”

ROTH residents have noted that the temporary solution is not working as well as it should.

“It’s not ideal for sure, we’ve had no hot water for almost a week and a half,” An anonymous ROTH resident said. “We’ve had no updates, and it’s frustrating that it’s still an ongoing issue.” Another resident, junior Elliana Nelson shared, “The ongoing hot water issues in ROTH are really frustrating. We pay a lot of money to live in campus housing; we shouldn’t have to worry about if our shower will be cold or if we can do our dishes. We were told there was a temporary solution put in place but there has been limited improvement since it was implemented.”