Not that surprising unfortunately. Park near me has a pond. Council had to put up warning signs telling people not to let their dogs or kids go into the water because it’s full of blue green algae which is highly toxic and can be fatal to dogs.
Sadly by the time they put the signs up a few dogs had already died due to the pond water.
You guys have minimum standards for E. Coli in that you must have at least this much E. Coli and any less is unacceptable so it follows that having 20x that minimum is a good thing.
Anyone silly enough to get in any of our waterways deserves the shits after all the publicity and warnings about it. Same goes for the Olympic athletes that heard officials were worried about the state of the water.
>Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River Monday morning as the mixed relay event got underway after days of uncertainty over water quality in the long-polluted Paris waterway.
>The plan to hold the swimming portion of the triathlons and the marathon swimming events in the Seine was an ambitious one. Swimming in the river has, with some exceptions, been off-limits since 1923 because it has been too toxic.
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Not that surprising unfortunately. Park near me has a pond. Council had to put up warning signs telling people not to let their dogs or kids go into the water because it’s full of blue green algae which is highly toxic and can be fatal to dogs.
Sadly by the time they put the signs up a few dogs had already died due to the pond water.
You guys have minimum standards for E. Coli in that you must have at least this much E. Coli and any less is unacceptable so it follows that having 20x that minimum is a good thing.
Anyone silly enough to get in any of our waterways deserves the shits after all the publicity and warnings about it. Same goes for the Olympic athletes that heard officials were worried about the state of the water.
>Olympic triathletes plunged into the Seine River Monday morning as the mixed relay event got underway after days of uncertainty over water quality in the long-polluted Paris waterway.
>The plan to hold the swimming portion of the triathlons and the marathon swimming events in the Seine was an ambitious one. Swimming in the river has, with some exceptions, been off-limits since 1923 because it has been too toxic.