The village of Fredonia’s boil order has been lifted.

According to Chautauqua County, turbidity levels have fallen to safe levels and operations have returned to normal. Two consecutive days of testing indicate that the water in the distribution system is safe for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth, making coffee.

It was the 10th boil order for village users in the past 37 months. On Monday night, the situation was discussed at the Village Board meeting.

Trustee Paul Wandel said he talked to water plant supervisor Luis Fred on Monday about the latest boil order situation, which started Friday.

“Basically what happened (was), with the intense rain we had last week, the turbidity levels on the raw water coming into the plant were excessively high,” the trustee said. “But I was informed by Mr. Fred, turbidity levels are normal now. He is also stocking up on two primary chemicals on that end of the plant that are necessary for separating the solids from the liquids.”

Wandel continued that Fred “is going to closely monitor the turbidity levels (in) all three sections of the plant. There’s three sections of the plant — the raw input section, there’s a midpoint, and the clear well before it exits the plant. Right now, all those readings are nominal, so that’s good news.”

Fred will also backwash filters once every 60 hours instead of once every 90 hours, in another step to fight high water turbidity, Wandel said.