The St. Petersburg Office of Rospotrebnadzor checked the cleanliness of city water bodies in the summer season that has just begun. The results of the analyses are disappointing: only in two places in St. Petersburg can you swim without harm to your health.
According to Rosbalt, specialists took 64 water samples, which they tested for sanitary-chemical, microbiological and parasitological indicators. The water meets sanitary requirements only at two sites: in the Kolonistsky pond and on the Laskovy beach in the Gulf of Finland. The rest of the city's water bodies cannot be considered safe for swimming.
A little earlier, the reservoirs of the Leningrad Region underwent a similar inspection. In the region, swimming is permitted in ten places: Pavlovskoye Lake, Dontso, the Luga River near the village of Bolshoy Sabsk, Koltushskoye, Korkinskoye and Kurgulovskoye lakes, the Gulf of Finland in the village of Vybye, Lake Svetloye, Taloni, Razdolinskoye and Tsaritsyno.
Popular bodies of water among summer residents, such as the Volkhov, Svir, Tosna and Oredezh rivers, as well as Mednoe Lake, Otradnoe, Dolgoe and Lembolovskoye lakes, have been found unsuitable for swimming based on water analysis results.
Source: travel.ru