On the morning of February 19, an employee went to the roof, where four 1,000-gallon (3,785 L) water tanks provided water pumped from the city's supply,[REF] for the guest rooms and the kitchen and coffee shop downstairs.
In the wake of the discovery, all of the Cecil's short-term guests left, many expressing revulsion at the thought that they had unknowingly been drinking water contaminated by a decomposing body for the preceding two weeks.