In the drinking water of Lenoblevodokanal in the Kirov district found bacteria from feces

The municipal enterprise "Vodokanal of Leningrad region" was warned. According to open data from the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, bacteria were found in the drinking water of Lenoblevodokanal in the Kirov district, which should not normally be there.

Laboratory studies of drinking water from the facility of the State Unitary Enterprise Lenoblvodokanal in the village of Putilovo of the Kirov district of Leningrad region revealed violations of hygienic norms by microbiological indicators: an excess of the permissible level of generalized coliform bacteria (CFU / 100 cm3) was found, which amounted to 6 units.

SanPiN 1.2.3685-21 requires compliance with the safety standards of drinking and hot water: the total microbial number should not exceed 50 CFU / cm3, and colimorphic bacteria, enterococci, coliphagi, cysts and oocysts of pathogenic protozoa, eggs and larvae of helminths, spores of sulfite-reducing clostridium should be absent.

It is worth saying that most often coliform bacteria (they include, for example, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella, enterobacter, citrobacter) are used as sanitary-indicative microorganisms. If they are found in water, on food or in other objects, it is a direct marker that fecal pollution (or pollution from the environment: soil, vegetation) got there.

The prosecutor’s office of the Leningrad region demanded that the company comply with the laws and reminded in a warning that drinking water should be safe in epidemiological and radiation terms, harmless in chemical composition and have favorable organoleptic properties.