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Young-Wright said they had to close their bathroom, but other than that, business <br />continued as normal. <br />Students at St. Thomas More Catholic School in Chapel Hill were excited to be released <br />from school a couple of hours early on Friday. <br />“I didn’t shower for three days and we had to leave school two hours early, because no <br />bathrooms,” said Emma Kang, an eighth grader at St. Thomas More. <br />UNC canceled classes around 1 p.m. Friday and encouraged students to leave campus <br />until the water levels returned to normal, according to an Alert Carolina message. <br />Some students were unsure how long the water crisis would last and tried to prepare for <br />days without being able to shower in dorms or eat in on -campus dining halls. <br />“One of my friends has a car and we went and got like six cases of bottled water on <br />Friday and kind of just made do with that,” sophomore Kristen Roehrig said. “Then we <br />went to somebody’s house to shower yesterday because their house runs on well <br />water.” <br />The water main was repaired and tests results showed that water was safe to drink <br />Saturday afternoon. By Saturday evening, the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant <br />resumed operations and OWASA stopped receiving water from Durham and Chatham <br />County. <br />OWASA posted another statement Sunday to alert customers that all OWASA <br />operations had returned to normal with water storage tanks being full and normal water <br />use being allowed. They are investigating the fluoride overfeed and water line break and <br />plan to report back to the community at a later date. <br />