Faecal Coliforms in the Hampstead Ponds

[Louloubelle]

I love swimming in the ponds and today as it was nice and sunny went with a work colleague in an attempt to combine swimming and sunbathing with some work.

She's been very ill and really needs to exercise so imagine my disappointment to arrive there to find a big sign saying that we were advised not to swim in the ponds because of the high levels of faecal coliforms.

We decided to lie around and sunbathe which was very nice but lots of women decided to swim in the water anyway. i swam in it last night but wouldn't have done if I'd heard about faecal coliforms.

Just the word faecal as a prefix to anything is enough to put me off swimming.

I just thought I'd post about it on here in case anyone was planning to go the the ponds in the hot weather. All the ponds are in the same state and they all have lots of people swimming in them and all have big warning signs up

If it hadn't have been for the word 'faecal' I'd have been in there, but I just didn't want to take the risk.

 

[lizzieloo]

Just in case anyone was wondering

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Somebody with a dicky tummy's shat in the water.....

 

[Louloubelle]

Somebody with a dicky tummy's shat in the water.....

In all 3 ponds?

 

[subversplat]

Fecal coliforms.

It's a fun thing to say

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You don't need a bad tummy to get them though. They're everwhere. I read a site that said you get them all over your hands every time you use the toilet.

 

[Reno]

I went swimming in the men's pond a few times this year and me and my friends are all ok. No farcical cauliflower for us.

 

[academia]

Just in case anyone was wondering

Not duck shit then.

 

[chico enrico]

may i just say this is the funiest threat i have seen on U75 for years.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I must admit when I first saw the thread title I thought it was refering to some of the elderly bathers....some of them have that over-tanned winter on the Med wrinkly turdy look.....

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

Just in case anyone was wondering

Its so lucky your here on urban lizziloo,
theres been quite a few times where i havent a clue what the thread/post is about,
and then up you pop with a really helpful link.

cheers ears

 

[Roadkill]

I misread the title too.

I've seen a fair few things in my time, but never a turd that looked like a cauliflower.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

so someone shat in the pond.

lovely.

as a side note, my brother once pooped in Carlisle Public Swimming baths in 1985. He was 2 but that's no excuse.

 

[Orang Utan]

The thread title made me think that this thread was a review of a punk gig or something

 

[Callie]

so someone shat in the pond.

lovely.

as a side note, my brother once pooped in Carlisle Public Swimming baths in 1985. He was 2 but that's no excuse.

Not necessarily - faecal coliforms are all over the blooming place and are probably always present in pond water but in warm weather their levels just multiply to such that they are more likely to cause problems. These bacteria are not pathogenic per se but they could make someone who is weak or infirm ill or they might get into an open cut or something and cause an infection.

If there were pathogenic bacteria in there eg Salmonella I doubt you would be given the choice to go swimming at all!

 

[Tays]

"faecal coliforms ", it's eyewatering. Imagine the the anorak who thought that would look good on a public sign (although it'd certainly put me off). I think Doctor Who's next major enemy has just reared it's ugly head.

 

[Louloubelle]

"faecal coliforms ", it's eyewatering. Imagine the the anorak who thought that would look good on a public sign (although it'd certainly put me off). I think Doctor Who's next major enemy has just reared it's ugly head.

LOL

I went for a good long swim on saturday and the water is good and fresh again with no warning signs up

 

[T & P]

Thread Title of the Year contender, surely?