{
  "id": "2026-06-26-suny-purchase-college-great-lawn-gas-leak",
  "slug": "suny-purchase-college-great-lawn-gas-leak-2026-06-26",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Purchase College, State University of New York",
    "shortName": "SUNY Purchase",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "public-bachelors",
    "enrollment": 4500
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-06-26",
    "type": "gas-leak",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "A contractor hits a gas line while excavating on the Great Lawn",
    "headlinePublic": "A contractor hits a gas line while excavating on the Great Lawn",
    "summary": "A facilities alert says a contractor hit a gas line on the Great Lawn and that the fire department and Con Edison closed the leak. The notice is the [Great Lawn gas line alert](https://www.purchase.edu/offices/facilities-management/alerts/).",
    "outcome": "The alert says the leak was closed and that no further disruption to campus operations was expected while facilities checked some systems."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "The notice is headed 6/26/26 and gives no clock and no timezone.",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "Great Lawn Gas Line - 6/26/26\n\nWhile excavating on the Great Lawn (Student Services side), a campus contractor hit a gas line. The Purchase Fire Department and Con Edison responded and were able to close off the leak. At this time, there should not be any additional disruptions to campus operations, though Facilities is still checking on the potential impacts to some of our systems. Facilities will reach out with any updates as our investigation continues.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.purchase.edu/offices/facilities-management/alerts/",
      "sourceDescription": "Facilities management gas line alert",
      "annotations": [
        "Distinct incident from 2016-04-17-suny-purchase-college-armed-suspect-lockdown and from 2026-09-28-suny-purchase-college-alumni-village-power-outage.",
        "Dual independent fetch 2026-10-04. sha256 e6eff270c7d165d2d1452ba35cf4bb839d2c79f897be1a7f7aa0c39fb7876986. Both reads took this body from the official facilities alert."
      ],
      "characterCount": 460
    }
  ],
  "context": "A facilities alert says a contractor hit a gas line on the Great Lawn and that the fire department and Con Edison closed the leak.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The alert says the leak was closed and that no further disruption to campus operations was expected while facilities checked some systems."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Facilities management gas line alert",
      "url": "https://www.purchase.edu/offices/facilities-management/alerts/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-10-04",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN not attempted after one in-flight save at 17:22Z"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "public-bachelors",
    "new-york",
    "gas-leak"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-10-04",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-04",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}