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RECORD NUMBER: 2015 OF 2069

Main Title Viruses in Finished Water: The Occoquan Experience.
Author Akin, E. W. ; Jakubowski., W. ;
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Year Published 1976
Report Number EPA/600/J-76/044;
Stock Number PB-266 316
Additional Subjects Viruses ; Reservoirs ; Water pollution ; Sewage treatment ; Disinfection ; Polioviruses ; Surface waters ; Monitoring ; Potable water ; Contamination ; Tables(Data) ; Virginia ; Water quality data ; Occoquan Reservoir
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NTIS  PB-266 316 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Low levels of poliovirus 1 were reported to have been isolated from 4 finished water samples collected by an EPA contractor from a water system that used conventional treatment including disinfection. The circumstances surrounding these virus isolations suggest that exogenous contamination of the samples may have occurred. This report discusses these circumstances and also recommends laboratory procedures that would minimize the risk of exogenous contamination of environmental virus samples.