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Orange Water and Sewer Authority responded Wednesday to a 2,000 gallon wastewater overflow in Chapel Hill’s Colony Lake neighborhood.

An OWASA crew found the overflow at about 10 a.m., when a crew responded to a leak report, and stopped it by 10:40 a.m. The overflow was caused when grease blocked a sewer.

The wastewater flowed into a pond near the manhole, and OWASA disinfected the area near the spill and will perform lab testing on the pond water.

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