Water Quality of Swimming Places: A Review

aStandards of swimming pool operation have been developed to prevent the spread of communicable diseases and to insure the safety and well-being of persons frequenting swimming pools. Of principal importance are the standards related to the bacterial quality of the water and the procedures for purification. Because of its simplicity of application, its economy of use, and its continuing, bactericidal action through the maintenance of residual levels, chlorine has been and is being used extensively to control the quality of swimming pool water High-free chlorine residuals in swimming pool water have proved so satisfactory in maintaining the sanitary quality of the water that less emphasis will need to be placed on bacterial standards if accurate titrations of the residuals are routinely carried out, say the reporters of this research.

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Microbial sampling variables and recreational water quality standards.

Brenniman¹,

Rosenberg²,

Northrop³

1981

Am J Public Health

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A study was conducted at two beaches on Lake Erie to evaluate the water sampling design for the collection of several microbiological indicator organisms in relation to day, time, and location of collection. The concentrations of these organisms were generally found to vary significantly (P < 0.05) by the specific time of day and day of weekend that collection took place. However, the concentrations of these organisms did not vary significantly (P > 0.05) at various locations in the bathing area. Future studies investigating the health effects of recreational water as related to microbiological variables should be designed to collect water samples at the specific time of day and day of weekend that an individual was exposed. In addition, sampling at various locations in the bathing area should probably be considered for those beaches having poor dispersion of fecal waste sources. (Am J Public Health 1981; 71:283-289.)

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Water Quality of Swimming Places: A Review

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Characteristics and Expeditious Detection of Bacterial Indices of Pollution of Marine Bathing Beaches

Characteristics and Expeditious Detection of Bacterial Indices of Pollution of Marine Bathing Beaches

A Study of Bacterial Flora in Swimming Pool Water Treated with High-Free Residual Chlorine

Microbial sampling variables and recreational water quality standards.

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