An issue that Fredonia water customers have been dealing with numerous times over the last few years is happening again. The village’s Office of Emergency Management, in coordination with the Chautauqua County Health Department, issued a boil water order Friday morning for all village water customers, including properties outside village boundaries that are supplied by the water system. The order was implemented due to high turbidity levels leaving the water treatment plant. WDOE News reached out to Fredonia Mayor Mike Ferguson, who explains that the high turbidity resulted from downpours that hit the area on Thursday…
Mike Ferguson: heavy rain dredged up the reservoir
According to the National Weather Service, the village received 1.15 inches of precipitation as of Friday morning. Ferguson says the water system did not have time to catch up with the turbidity of the water, so the boil order was issued in order to slow it down…..