{"id":814549,"date":"2026-08-15T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/814549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:20:08","slug":"boil-advisory-in-effect-for-some-hillsborough-water-customers-including-downtown-area-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/814549\/","title":{"rendered":"Boil advisory in effect for some Hillsborough water customers, including downtown area :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boil advisory is in effect Saturday until further notice for many water customers in Hillsborough following a water main leak.<\/p>\n<p>A boil advisory means water needs to be boiled before drinking, cooking or brushing teeth. The advisory was announced at 3 a.m. for the following areas in the town\u2019s central water zone:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe downtown areaWest HillsboroughThe north side of U.S. 70A to Lawrence Road, except for Forest RidgeTuscarora and Morelanda drives<\/p>\n<p>According to the town of Hillsborough, the boil water advisory affects all customers who experienced low water pressure Friday evening into Saturday. Call the water treatment plant at 919-732-3621 if you are unsure if you are in the affected area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The town is asking residents to conserve water after a 6-inch water main leak on Elizabeth Brady Road overnight. Water pressure issues are expected to be resolved by Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize for the inconvenience and are grateful for our water dedicated town staff who are working overnight to resolve the problem,\u201d said utilities director Marie Strandwitz.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some restaurants may close as a result of the boil water advisory.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boil advisory is in effect Saturday until further notice for many water customers in Hillsborough following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[19275,192,623,79],"class_list":["post-814549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-boil-water-advisory","tag-environment","tag-hillsborough","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}