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Water sold out at Harris Teeter. #owasa 2:26 PM - 3 Feb 2017 · Chapel Hill, NC All restaurants served by OWASA were ordered closed by the Orange County Health Director Friday afternoon. Colleen Bridger, the Orange County health director said health department staff were going door-to-door to alert hotels and restaurants. Instead of a bustling start to the weekend, restaurants on Franklin Street and other parts of Chapel Hill are shut down. "Especially tonight, that's a lot of money we're missing out on and a lot of people are disappointed," said Isaac Park, owner of Ms. Mong restaurant. "It's just going to be devastating for all the businesses around here. The whole town is going to lose so much money from this." Many restaurant and bar owners said before the water crisis, this weekend could have been a lucrative weekend with the UNC basketball game, which will now be in Greensboro, and crowds from Super Bowl Sunday. "We are going to weather this just fine, I think most places will," said restaurant owner Chris Carini. "It is one weekend out of many. Typically when this happens you see a resurgence the following week when everyone wants to get out." GoTriangle said an additional bus on route 800 will be sent to Chapel Hill to pick people up who are at the South Road at Fetzer Gym stop. The bus will continue on to Streets at Southpoint, where passengers can transfer to other locations. Regular route 800 service between Chapel Hill, South Point and the Regional Transit Center will continue for the remainder of the afternoon and early evening, following the usual schedule. According to a spokesperson for the town of Hillsborough, the town operates under a separate water system and customers in Hillsborough are unaffected by the water main break. The water main break comes one day after an accidental overfeed of fluoride in the water treatment plant forced the utility to get drinking water from the City of Durham. The excess fluoride was contained to the Jones Ferry Road plant. It is unclear is the water main break is related to the fluoride overfeed. EMERGENCY--OWASA DIRECTS CUSTOMERS NOT TO USE OWASA WATER UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. More information: http://www.owasa.org/emergency-do-not- use-owasa-water-until-further-notice … 11:29 AM - 3 Feb 2017 Residents with questions about the water shortage can contact Orange County emergency officials at 919-245-6111. Customers can also text "owasawater" to 888777 for information. Public water distribution sites will open at 10 a.m. Saturday for residents in Chapel Hill and Carrboro who have been impacted by the water shortage. Chapel Hill has sites at Hargraves Community Center and Southern Community Park. Carrboro has sites at McDougal Elementary School and Carrboro High School.