The ice at the Tennity Ice Skating Pavilion on South Campus recently melted and was removed from the rink this week.

Tennity officials learned Friday that a heat exchanger, which keeps the ice frozen, was broken. At that point, the ice was melting and “there was nothing we could do about it,” said Jordan Peters, the assistant director at Tennity.

Tennity employees spent this week removing the ice, which was mostly water by Wednesday, from the rink, which is now just a concrete floor, Peters said.

The ice won’t be reinstalled until the heat exchanger is fixed, which Peters said is unlikely to happen before the end of the semester.

Syracuse University’s Physical Plant department will be responsible for repairing the equipment, Peters added. Representatives from the Physical Plant did not return phone calls on Wednesday requesting comment.