Riker Hall's third-floor residents may have to shell out $3,000 each in damages after the building flooded Oct. 10.
Mason Reuter, residence life coordinator, said current estimates for the damages are about $150,000.
According to Reuter, the flood was the result of a person or group of people who were playing with a ball in the hallway of the third floor that hit a sprinkler head and caused the water pipe to break.
Mason said students unable to pay the fees would probably have a hold placed on their record, which can keep them from registering for spring classes.
Matt King, a freshman living on the third floor of the building, said he has a meeting with Reuter to discuss the incident.
King said Reuter is conducting individual interviews with third-floor residents to figure out what happened.
King borrowed a camera from a friend so he could videotape the aftermath of the flood.
"Unfortunately, it didn't look as dramatic because by the time we got up there (the third floor of Riker Hall), they were cleaning it up," King said. "But some people's rooms looked pretty bad."
