The US Internal Revenue Services has announced that its headquarters in Washington, DC will remain closed for several months, after the severe rainfall which recently hit parts of the eastern United States caused extensive flood damage to the building's infrastructure.
According to an assessment by the IRS General Services Administration, Headquarters Building at 1111 Constitution Ave. NW. will be closed until the first of next year, after critical parts of the building’s electrical system and heating and air conditioning systems were destroyed or heavily damaged during the record rainfall.
The equipment is located in the building’s sub-basement, which was submerged in more than 20 feet of water. Some 3 million gallons of water poured into the building during the floods, which began on June 25.
A review is currently underway to determine what steps need to be taken to ensure this type of damage would not occur again in a comparable storm. Results of this review and a final reoccupancy schedule will be completed by early August.
Work continues on assessing which systems can be repaired and which need to be replaced. Total damage estimates are not yet complete, but costs are expected to run in the tens of millions of dollars.
The IRS has implemented business resumption processes to continue tax administration operations.
The 2,400 employees who work in the building are being assigned to the other 12 buildings that the IRS occupies in the metro area, into temporary space, or are telecommuting.
Despite the disruption, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said that contingency plans had coped well.
“We successfully implemented our Continuation of Operations (COOP) plan, and all critical employees were back to work within two weeks. Both across the country and here in Washington, the IRS is on the job,” he stated.
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