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.............ditto on not drinking it!

I worked for a summer at a WWTP in Florida as a microbiologist that used experimental ozone generators and ultrasonics. Before discharging the effluent they held it in a small concrete above ground pool (all painted pacific blue of course to make it look delicious). They called the press in to check out this new treatment technology and up comes a news van with a very attractive news woman known well as a local anchor person. I ran fecal coliform analysis from a grab sample from the pool and it was off the charts that morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ran around like a mad man suggesting batch treating the pool content with chlorine. "Naw" said the plant manager, "we are not going to make her drink it". Well, there I stood with the cameras rolling when this lady takes a beaker and dips it in the pool to take a drink! I thought she sealed her fate at that point, but she took a taste in front of the camera, finished her interview and off she went. I guess she lived through it as I saw her on the news that night and following nights. No telling though how sick she really got over that.

The message here? DO NOT DRINK THAT STUFF without knowing the coliform count....period.