The Chautauqua County Health Department lifted the boil-water order for all village of Fredonia water customers, including those within the town of Pomfret on Sunday afternoon. Turbidity in the distribution system returned to acceptable levels, the department said, and two consecutive days of testing indicated the distribution system is safe for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth, making coffee.

A maintenance issue Wednesday in the reservoir and a disabled storage unit on Webster Road was responsible for this latest crisis, the sixth since 2009 and second in less than four months.

During the last order in the winter from Feb. 26 to March 1, a mechanical issue in the plant led to the disruption.

In April, Dunkirk Mayor Wilfred Rosas offered a proposal to have the city of Dunkirk provide village residents with water through its newly refurbished and state-of-the-art treatment facility on Lake Shore Drive.

In the plan, Dunkirk would supply 1.3 million gallons of water per day to Fredonia. It would come through three connections: through the Vineyard Drive pump station the communities share, and two Route 20 linkups on either end of the village. The Route 20 infrastructure belongs to the North County Water District, but Dunkirk is the sole supplier of that. To even consider that option, a study was approved by a contentious 3-2 vote by the Village Board in May.