The vocational education building at the Haines School has been without water since Saturday when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Yakutat. 

Just about eight hours after that quake, and the dozens of aftershocks that followed, Haines water and sewer supervisor Dennis Durr got a call saying there was water coming up through the ground outside of the building. He met school maintenance supervisor Gary Stigen to investigate and found signs of a large leak. 

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