SEABROOK — Repeated tests of town water over the weekend – after a single sample tested Friday indicated E. coli bacteria contamination – gave the town a clean bill of health Sunday, according to the town manager.
Seabrook received a positive E. coli reading on Friday from a single water sample, so town officials worked over the weekend with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services "to examine the Seabrook water system, and ascertain whether the single test represented a wider problem with water quality" in Seabrook, according to a release Sunday from Town Manager Bill Manzi.
E. coli can be an indicator of the presence of fecal material.
Seabrook Water Department Superintendent Curtis Slayton and chief operator George Eaton, in close cooperation with DES, immediately began drawing new samples for testing.
On Saturday morning, the state DES and Eaton, conducted a full sanitary inspection of the Seabrook water system, Manzi said.
Additional water sampling was also conducted and sent to a state certified lab.
"Since the initial positive result was not duplicated it appears that the initial finding was an anomaly," Manzi said in the release.
Manzi also stressed that Slayton and Eaton "provided critical updates to the Seabrook Board of Selectmen, who are the Water Commissioners of the town of Seabrook."
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