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The Bramham Incident, 1980 ‐ An Outbreak of Water‐borne Infection
Author(s) -
SHORT C. S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1988.tb01310.x
Subject(s) - sanitary sewer , outbreak , water supply , sewage , environmental science , water source , water resource management , environmental engineering , geography , medicine , virology
SYNOPSIS AN OUTBREAK OF gastro‐enteritis in several villages to the North East of Leeds, England, in July 1980 was rapidly traced to the water supply. One of the source boreholes was found to be contaminated by sewage from faulty sewers, via the Magnesian limestone. The combination of circumstances which allowed the contaminated water to enter the supply are described, as are the ways in which systems were improved to prevent any similar incident occurring