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Aztec Circle water-main break shuts four buildings

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San Diego State University posted three Urgent updates after a water main break on Aztec Circle Drive shut water to North Art, South Art, the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center, and Facilities Services and closed part of the road. Water was restored the same day; the road reopened September 25.

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Institution
San Diego State University
Public R2 · CA
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Documented Timeline

Alert Sequence

3 messages in sequence · 3 verified verbatim

Confirmed wording is transcribed character-for-character from a primary source. Use Verify this quote under each message to open that source in a new tab and compare the text yourself.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
Verified verbatim380 chars
SDSU Facilities Services is actively addressing a water main break on Aztec Circle Dr., between the Facilities Services building and the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center. Water is temporarily shut off in the North Art, South Art, Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center and the Facilities Services buildings. Portions of Aztec Circle Dr. are also temporarily closed. Updates to come.
Dual independent fetches 2026-08-17. sha256 dc9bca8967c785b55edc7865daebfa6d1ea4e2db754d2f02c9276322bab2ef09.
Thread checked N/A (official HTML archive).
Not a test: live water-main break with named buildings and a road closure.
Distinct incident from 2024-10-26-san-diego-state-university-water-outage: different date, cause, and campus footprint.
UPDATEEmail+9h 4m
Verified verbatim342 chars
The water main break reported earlier today on Aztec Circle Dr., between the Facilities Services building and the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center, has been resolved and water has been restored to the four impacted buildings. Please note: Portions of Aztec Circle Dr. remain closed. Updates will be provided once the road closure is lifted.
Same dual fetch. Water restored; road remained closed.
Message elements

How the first alert is built

To check this alert, SuperGrok Heavy 4.5 (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.

SDSU Facilities Services is actively addressing a water main break on Aztec Circle Dr., between the Facilities Services building and the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center. Water is temporarily shut off in the North Art, South Art, Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center and the Facilities Services buildings. Portions of Aztec Circle Dr. are also temporarily closed. Updates to come.

  • Sourcepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    All 25 passes treat SDSU Facilities Services as the official source.

    Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.

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    1. present: SDSU Facilities Services named in the opening clause.
    2. present: SDSU Facilities Services stated as the official unit.
    3. present: SDSU Facilities Services appears as the branded source.
    4. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the campus voice of the notice.
    5. present: SDSU Facilities Services identifies the sender on this product.
    6. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the institution speaking here.
    7. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the shop named as responding.
    8. present: SDSU Facilities Services marks this as an official SDSU product.
    9. present: SDSU Facilities Services is how the notice identifies itself.
    10. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the campus name in the body.
    11. present: SDSU Facilities Services functions as the sender label.
    12. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the unit given as on scene.
    13. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the branded campus in the text.
    14. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the speaker of the update.
    15. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the official name used.
    16. present: SDSU Facilities Services anchors the product as SDSU Urgent copy.
    17. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the campus identity in the sentence.
    18. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the responding Facilities shop.
    19. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the university named as the site.
    20. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the source framing the incident.
    21. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the labeled campus unit.
    22. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the official sender language.
    23. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the name the notice uses for itself.
    24. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the campus brand on the product.
    25. present: SDSU Facilities Services is the institutional voice here.
  • Hazardpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Every pass marks the water main break as the hazard.

    What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.

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    1. present: It names a water main break, a specific utility hazard.
    2. present: The hazard is a water main break on Aztec Circle Dr.
    3. present: Water is temporarily shut off is the utility loss.
    4. present: A water main break is the concrete hazard.
    5. present: The product reports a broken water main.
    6. present: Shut-off water in named buildings is the hazard effect.
    7. present: The emergency condition is a water main break.
    8. present: Hazard language is water main break.
    9. present: The notice is about a campus water-main failure.
    10. present: A broken main plus building water shutoff is the hazard.
    11. present: The text names a water main break as the event.
    12. present: Utility water loss is the hazard described.
    13. present: The incident type in the text is a water main break.
    14. present: Temporarily shut off water is hazard language.
    15. present: The body reports a water main break and road closure.
    16. present: A campus water-system failure is the hazard.
    17. present: The named threat is loss of building water.
    18. present: Water main break is explicit hazard wording.
    19. present: The product is a utility-break notice.
    20. present: Aztec Circle water main break is the hazard stated.
    21. present: The text concerns an unplanned water-main failure.
    22. present: Hazard is water shutoff from a main break.
    23. present: The body centers on a water main break.
    24. present: Building water outage is the hazard.
    25. present: The notice names a water main break as the problem.
  • Locationpresent25/25

    Final assessment

    Aztec Circle Drive and four named buildings are the location.

    Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.

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    1. present: Aztec Circle Dr. plus North Art, South Art, Shiley BioScience Center, and Facilities Services are named places.
    2. present: The break is located on Aztec Circle Dr. between two named buildings.
    3. present: North Art and South Art are named buildings.
    4. present: Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center is a named building.
    5. present: Facilities Services building is a named place.
    6. present: Portions of Aztec Circle Dr. are a named road segment.
    7. present: The location is a specific north-campus street and four buildings.
    8. present: Aztec Circle Dr. is the spatial cue.
    9. present: Four buildings are listed as the affected footprint.
    10. present: The product names the street and the flanking buildings.
    11. present: Between the Facilities Services building and Shiley is a location phrase.
    12. present: North Art, South Art, Shiley, and Facilities are the shutoff sites.
    13. present: The road name Aztec Circle Dr. appears twice.
    14. present: The affected area is north-campus buildings on Aztec Circle.
    15. present: Location language lists four buildings and a drive.
    16. present: The spatial frame is Aztec Circle Drive and adjacent buildings.
    17. present: Named places include Aztec Circle Dr. and Shiley BioScience Center.
    18. present: The text locates the break between two campus buildings.
    19. present: Campus buildings on Aztec Circle are the locus.
    20. present: The shutoff footprint is four named buildings.
    21. present: Aztec Circle Dr. is the named campus road.
    22. present: The notice places the event on Aztec Circle Drive.
    23. present: Shiley BioScience Center is a specific campus building.
    24. present: North Art and South Art locate the outage.
    25. present: The site is Aztec Circle Dr. on the SDSU campus.
  • Guidancepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    The road closure and updates-to-come line are treated as guidance.

    The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: Updates to come is a hold-for-further-instruction cue, and the road closure is implicit avoid-the-area guidance.
    2. present: Portions of Aztec Circle Dr. are also temporarily closed tells people the road is closed.
    3. present: The closed-road line is guidance to avoid that segment.
    4. present: Temporarily closed portions of the drive is an access instruction.
    5. present: Updates to come asks the audience to wait for more direction.
    6. present: The notice tells people a campus road is closed.
    7. present: Road closure is the protective access guidance.
    8. present: The product directs people away from the closed drive portions.
    9. present: Temporarily closed is guidance about campus movement.
    10. present: The body includes a road-closure instruction.
    11. present: People are told Aztec Circle portions are closed.
    12. present: The closed-drive sentence is the action cue.
    13. present: Guidance is implicit: do not use the closed road.
    14. present: Updates to come is a stay-tuned instruction.
    15. present: The road closure is the operational guidance.
    16. present: The notice warns that portions of the drive are closed.
    17. present: Avoiding the closed segment is the implied action.
    18. present: Temporarily closed plus updates to come is the guidance pair.
    19. present: The audience is told the road is closed.
    20. present: A campus road closure is stated as a current condition to heed.
    21. present: The product includes closure guidance for Aztec Circle Dr.
    22. present: People should treat the named road portions as closed.
    23. present: The instruction is that parts of Aztec Circle are closed.
    24. present: Updates to come plus a closure is the guidance content.
    25. present: The closed-road statement is the guidance element.
  • Timepresent25/25

    Final assessment

    The 9:23 a.m. Sept. 22 archive stamp is the time element.

    When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. present: The archive stamp 9:23 a.m. on Sept. 22 is the product time; the body is the same-day initial.
    2. present: Sept. 22, 2024, at 9:23 a.m. is the timed header on the archive page.
    3. present: The product is the morning initial on September 22.
    4. present: 9:23 a.m. is a clock time on the official archive.
    5. present: The notice is the first timed update that day.
    6. present: September 22 morning is the incident start window.
    7. present: The archive dates this product to Sept. 22 at 9:23 a.m.
    8. present: A morning timestamp is attached to this body.
    9. present: The initial is timed 9:23 a.m.
    10. present: The date of the product is September 22 2024.
    11. present: 9:23 a.m. marks when this notice went out.
    12. present: The body is the first of three timed products.
    13. present: The official time cue is Sept. 22 at 9:23 a.m.
    14. present: This is the morning product, before the 6:27 p.m. restore.
    15. present: The timestamp is 9:23 a.m. Pacific.
    16. present: Sept. 22 is the incident date on the product header.
    17. present: The clock time 9:23 a.m. is present on the archive.
    18. present: The notice is explicitly timed on the Urgent page.
    19. present: Morning of September 22 is the time frame.
    20. present: The product header carries a date and a time.
    21. present: 9:23 a.m. is the send time recorded by SDSU.
    22. present: The initial is the 9:23 a.m. Sept. 22 item.
    23. present: A specific hour and minute are on the archive header.
    24. present: The time element is the 9:23 a.m. stamp.
    25. present: Sept. 22, 2024, at 9:23 a.m. is the time cue.
  • Impactabsent0/25

    Final assessment

    All 25 passes find no stated harm to people.

    What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.

    See all 25 individual reads
    1. absent: No injury language is used.
    2. absent: The text does not name hurt people or deaths.
    3. absent: No victim, injury, or medical wording appears.
    4. absent: Impact is on buildings and a road, not named persons harmed.
    5. absent: There is no statement of human injury.
    6. absent: No casualties are described.
    7. absent: The notice is silent on injuries.
    8. absent: People are not described as victims.
    9. absent: No identity of a harmed person is given.
    10. absent: Harm-to-people language is absent.
    11. absent: The water-main notice does not mention injuries.
    12. absent: No patient, fatality, or wounded wording.
    13. absent: Building water loss is not personal harm.
    14. absent: The text has no injury or death claim.
    15. absent: No named victim appears.
    16. absent: Human harm is not asserted.
    17. absent: The product omits injury information.
    18. absent: No medical or casualty language.
    19. absent: Identity or impact on a person as harmed is missing.
    20. absent: The notice does not describe injuries.
    21. absent: No one is named as hurt.
    22. absent: There is no impact-on-people injury line.
    23. absent: Road and water impacts are not personal injuries.
    24. absent: The text lacks injury or fatality content.
    25. absent: No personal-harm identity element is present.

Coded by SuperGrok Heavy 4.5

Systematic AI judgments with visible reasoning, not human-validated codings.

About this analysis
Context

Background

SDSU Urgent archive for a September 22 2024 water main break on Aztec Circle Drive that shut four north-campus buildings and closed part of the road until September 25.
Analysis

Key Findings

Four buildings lost water; road stayed closed until the following Wednesday.
Outcome
Water restored September 22. Aztec Circle Drive reopened 1 p.m. September 25. No ongoing impacts.
Provenance

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Campus Alert Archive. "San Diego State University: Aztec Circle water-main break shuts four buildings." Incident of September 22, 2024. Added August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/san-diego-state-university-aztec-circle-water-main-break-2024-09-22/

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Added August 2026Updated August 2026Via ingestion