Tap water in Chapel Hill-Carrboro off limits until later this weekend [View all]
CARRBORO -- It will be at least late Saturday or Sunday before OWASA will know whether its drinking water is safe and customers in Chapel Hill and Carrboro can start using it again, officials said Friday.
A broken water pipe discovered Friday morning leaked up to 1.5 million gallons after a fluoride overfeed at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant on Thursday forced OWASA to start getting water from Durham.
That water is going into storage tanks until OWASA can make sure its water is safe and can refill its tanks to provide sufficient pressure to operate the system.
That will take “at least one or two days,” spokesman Greg Feller said Friday evening. “We do not have an estimate.”
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