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StarTribune <br />Water shutdown hits North Carolina college <br />town <br />Associated Press <br /> <br />FEBRUARY 3, 2017 — 6:49PM <br /> <br /> BERNARD THOMAS, ASSOCIATED PRESSAn Orange Sewer and Water Authority employee look at the water break damage in <br />Chapel Hill, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in N.C., officials in Chapel Hill are asking everybody to stop using water after the water main break <br />and a low tank levels. Bottled water is being rushed to student dorms at North Carolina’s flagship public university and nearby <br />nursing homes after a series of malfunctions shut down the municipal water system. Restaurants, schools in Chapel Hill and <br />Carrboro and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill closed Friday after a water treatment plant was shut down by a m iscue <br />in chemical treatment and a water main broke <br /> <br />CARRBORO, N.C. — Bottled water was rushed Friday to student dorms at North Carolina's <br />flagship public university and nearby nursing homes after a series of malfunctions shut <br />down the municipal water system. <br />Restaurants and hotels were shuttered, schools in Chapel Hill and Carrboro closed early and <br />operations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shut down after a water <br />treatment plant quit operating. It would be at least Saturday evening and possibly Sunday <br />before normal water service was restored, Orange Water and Sewer Authority Executive <br />Director Ed Kerwin said.