The boil water notice affecting three areas in Vicksburg has been lifted, Public Works Director Garnet Van Norman said.

“Everything is clear and we’re good to go,” he said late Friday morning. “We had two days of clear samples.”

The boil water notice was issued Wednesday for Indiana Avenue to Clay Street from Mission 66 to U.S. 27, Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard from Farmer Street to Mission 66, and Washington Street to Cherry Street from Clay Street to Speed Street, after Vicksburg’s water treatment plant shut down because of a power failure and will remain in effect until further notice.

“I want to commend Garnet and all the city employees for their reaction to this emergency and their work to correct this problem,” Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said.

“But we have to remember this is the oldest plant in the city and it has not been updated in some time.”

He said an evaluation of the water plant and its equipment is part of a contract the city signed with Jackson-based engineering firm CDM Smith, which specializes in water and environmental matters.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen in October hired the company to help city officials prepare requirements for requests for proposals from companies interested in taking over the water treatment plant.

City officials were forced to issue the boil water notice after a downed city power line leading to the city’s well field off Haining Road fell, causing a chain reaction of blown fuses that knocked out power to the city’s water treatment plant on Haining Road early Wednesday morning and attempts to operate the plant’s backup generator were unsuccessful.

A citywide boil water notice was initially issued for the city and was later reduced to the three areas.