The consistent boil advisories and orders placed on hundreds of neighbors in and around the town of Copan are over, according to town officials citing Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.

"It's been tremendously hard on the residents...because there's been no consistency," Copan mayor Eric Mumma told 2 News Nov. 19.

While delivering bottles and containers for families and the local school district was the normal for the better part of two years, Mayor Mumma said his biggest goal in his second stint in charge of the town was to get a long term fix.

"And get a new set of filters now," the mayor said. "That was the quickest process to get us back off of the boil advisory. So we took that advice."

Mumma said he and other town officials worked for more than a year to secure grants

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