The water main break responsible for flooding Science Buildings II and IV, and temporarily cutting off water supply for students on campus Sunday night, was due to an old pipe, according to Binghamton University spokeswoman Gail Glover.

“We will most likely not be able to pinpoint an exact cause,” Glover said. “It was an old pipe under high pressure and sometimes, under these conditions, older piping can fail.”

Glover also said that, though most of the cleanup had already been completed, the University would need to re-landscape and pave the area around where the break occurred.