Plumbing leak floods school library

News From SD where Fast action by custodians at Wilson Elementary School saved about 9,000 library books from drowning in late July.

About $11,000 worth of children’s library books and reading textbooks were ruined, however, after a July 22 plumbing failure on the floor above the library, according to principal Kathy Conlon.

“It sounded like it was raining in the library,” Conlon, Wilson’s new principal, said. She was out of town when the damage occurred.