WEIRTON — Only a few days after Weirton’s mayor said the city was turning a corner in the weeks-long water crisis, officials announced Thursday morning pressure has been normalized, and all boil orders have been lifted.

While a mandatory conservation order remains in place throughout the city, the Weirton Area Water Board announced that, effective at 8:50 a.m. Thursday, the boil order for the Weirton Heights neighborhoods had been lifted.

“Residents and businesses in the affected areas may resume using purchased water from the Weirton Area Water Board without any restrictions or requirement to boil their water,” according to the notice, which was distributed through the city’s website and alert system just before 9 a.m. Thursday.

The boil order had been issued by the water board on Jan. 23, following the discovery of numerous breaks within the water distribution system, and the diminishing of water tank levels serving Weirton Heights.

In addition, the water board has discontinued the distribution of water to Weirton Heights residents from the Gilson Avenue Fire Station, also effective Thursday morning. Water distribution at the County Road Fire Station was halted Monday.

Following those moves, Weirton Ride, operated by the city’s transit department, announced it had suspended its offer of free rides to the Millsop Community Center for those affected residents seeking to use the center’s shower facility.

Weirton Elementary School, which had been operating on remote and two-hour delay schedules for several days, was set to return to normal school hours today, according to social media posts from Superintendent Dan Enich, with after-school activities also set to resume.

The conservation order was issued Dec. 18 following a series of water line breaks in the city, with a city-wide boil order issued Dec. 27 after a break in a 12-inch main water line on Walnut Street led to outages throughout the city.

The city-wide boil order was partially lifted on Dec. 31, with a full lift of the order announced Jan. 3.

Officials have expressed appreciation to those on the county and state level who have offered assistance during the crisis, including Gov. Patrick Morrisey and state Sen. Ryan Weld, R-Brooke, as well as Dels. Mark Zatezalo and Pat McGeehan, both R-Hancock, the Hancock County Commission, the West Virginia Bureau of Public Health and emergency management offices for the state and Hancock and Brooke counties.

“They’ve been a huge help to us,” Mayor Dean Harris said Monday.