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Mt. Pleasant School closed due to ‘substantial water leak’

Washougal school's principal 'very hopeful' repairs will be done in time for school to open again on Friday

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Mount Pleasant School second/third-grade teacher Cara Ramsey helps students Ole Stiles, McKinley Williams, Lilly Blaisdell and Audrey Morales with a science project Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record files)

The Mt. Pleasant School in east Washougal is closed today and undergoing emergency repairs for what Principal Cathy Lehman described in a letter to Mt. Pleasant families sent Wednesday, Jan. 4, as “a substantial water leak with tree roots involved” near the school’s pump house off Turk Road. 

Administrators for the small Skamania County school, which serves 67 students in grades kindergarten through eighth grades, announced Tuesday, Jan. 3, they planned to have a two-hour delay the next morning. 

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