This emergency/quick purchase was required due to a situation in which immediate repairs were needed to prevent further loss or damage to University property.

Illinois State University is currently experiencing extreme building flooding conditions at Redbird Arena. The flooding has been made much worse by a recently completed exterior civil construction drainage project. This project was designed to improve the site drainage conditions and mitigate flooding of Redbird Arena during heavy rain and stormwater drainage events (i.e. spring snow melt). However it could not be foreseen that the storm water system had exceeded capacity and flooding is due to water back-ups during significant water events. Current storm sewer flow volumes exceed storm sewer current capacity during each "significant rain event". The recent project made the situation much worse and provided a short-cut relief valve for backed up storm sewer water to be expedited directly back into Redbird Arena, exacerbating the problem.