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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 />The water break forced UNC to cancel classes <br />Monday and Tuesday. Classes will resume <br />Wednesday morning. <br />UNC Health Care postponed elective surgeries <br />Monday, and emergency calls were diverted to <br />other area hospitals. <br />The hospital system returned to normal <br />operations over the course of the day Tuesday <br />and began to accept emergency patients again, <br />officials said. <br />Orange County government reminded voters <br />online that all polling places were open Tuesday <br />from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and weren’t <br />disrupted by the water situation. <br />In February 2017, a break shut off water service <br />to residential and business customers for more <br />than 24 hours. An independent report blamed <br />human and system errors for that incident, <br />which started with a fluoride overfeed at the <br />Jones Ferry Road water plant. <br />Low said roughly half of OWASA’s $40 million <br />annual budget is spent replacing and updating <br />its equipment and facilities. This year’s budget <br />funds about 60 projects, including $5.5 million <br />for water main upgrades. As a nonprofit, <br />OWASA’s revenues come largely from water <br />and sewer fees. <br />UNC-Chapel Hill cancels classes <br />Tuesday because of water main <br />break <br />RELATED STORIES FROM RALEIGH NEWS &OBSERVER