A boil order was lifted for most Beatrice water customers Monday afternoon after water samples came back negative, Water Superintendent Steve Kelley said.
However, customers within the area of Elk Street to the Big Blue River between First and 19th streets are asked to continue to boil water, Kelley said. The area has to be retested after one of the 100 samples came back positive.
He said five samples from the area would need to be taken Monday and five more would need to be taken Tuesday. The earliest the boil order for that area could be lifted would be Wednesday, he said.
Beatrice customers served by the north water tower were placed under a boil order Friday evening after a water main break occurred near the north pump house at Fourth and Grant streets.