Water pollution levels in Paris's River Seine remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics.
remain much higher than allowed for bathing, data showed on Friday, one month before the Olympics in which the capital’s landmark waterway is meant to be one of the swimming venues.
At the Alexandre III bridge, the planned triathlon swimming site, enterococci exceeded a concentration of 1000 colony-forming units /100 ml on Sunday, more than double the 400 cfu/100ml limit set by European law. The E.coli concentration was almost four times higher than permitted. Rabadan insisted that the only cause for concern would be “repeated and prolonged rainfall,” although he hinted the results Paris would publish next week could be much better.
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