MARS — Voters last May approved a measure permitting the production and sale of alcohol in the borough for the first time since the Prohibition era.

Now borough council members are considering amendments to zoning laws that will allow for businesses to better take advantage of the relaxed rules.

During Monday’s council meeting, Mayor Gregg Hartung said while the outcome of the election effectively made alcohol legal within the borough, zoning ordinances specifically prohibit it.

A public hearing will be held in the coming months to propose changes to the ordinances. This includes the creation of spaces for the sale, as well as other issues that could arise by permitting alcohol at a business, including parking requirements.

Information on the public hearing will be advertised in the coming weeks.

Council members also applauded the response of borough workers in finding the source of a water line leak in January that left much of the town without water for five days.

Crews could not locate the leak for several days, as there was no obvious runoff point, according to G. Michael Fleming, council president. He said he joined crews in wading through frozen creeks and streams searching for traces of chlorine that would lead back to the break.

The break was eventually found in an 8-inch line on Long Alley and repaired. However, Fleming said the time and energy spent should not be downplayed, as crews worked around the clock.

“We had a lot of hours, but there wasn’t any way around it,” he said. “No resident would want to hear we took a day off.”

More than 400,000 gallons of water were lost over the course of the search. Once the main leak was fixed, two additional breaks occurred as the borough’s reservoirs were being refilled, causing surges within the system.