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Chapel Hill-Carrboro water main break: Boiling order lifted | News & Observer <br />https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article221191950.html[11/19/2018 9:24:24 AM] <br />About 75 customers in three Carrboro locations <br />were told their wait may be a little longer, <br />OWASA officials said in a news release. <br />A water main broke outside the utility’s Jones Ferry Road <br />water treatment plant Monday morning, flooding the street <br />and leaving more than 80,000 customers in Chapel Hill <br />and Carrboro with limited water. It was the second time in <br />less than two years that a broken pipe disrupted the <br />utility’s water service. <br />Officials don’t know yet why the 20-inch pipe <br />burst, OWASA spokeswoman Linda Low said, <br />but it was built in the 1940s. <br />The priority has been getting the pipe fixed and <br />ensuring there are no other issues from the <br />force of the water when it’s turned back on, Low <br />said. <br />That’s what happened Monday afternoon when <br />a small leak cracked a pipe in Carrboro, <br />temporarily shutting off water to 26 customers, <br />she said. <br />Crews spent Monday night and most of Tuesday <br />repairing the affected pipe on Jones Ferry <br />Road. <br />Hillsborough supplied OWASA with additional <br />water during the emergency. <br />“When we have a break like this, a lot of water <br />flows out. In terms of safety, our team can’t just <br />walk right up to that pipe and walk along it to <br />see where the point of origin along this big <br />pipe,” Low said. “Throughout [Monday], our <br />teams were turning off different valves and re- <br />routing water or stopping the flow of water at <br />different sections of the pipe, so they could <br />isolate where along that pipe the water was <br />leaking.” <br />MORE LOCAL  <br />death <br />This Raleigh restaurant will be in the <br />national spotlight Monday for helping feed <br />others