The fairground water distribution system failed pressure tests in multiple places, and back siphoning was demonstrated.
It was a handsome, hand-crafted object, painted in gaudy fairground fashion with stained or etched glass in its windows and a marble-countered and ceramic-tiled interior.
Fairground managers should work with local public health officials to make agricultural fairs safer.
The fairground has been in its present location for more than 100 years and has been supplied by the municipal water system since the 1930s.
The distribution system within the fairgrounds was partially renovated in 1996.
A 6-inch feeding trunk runs into the fairground and to the fairground distribution system.
The vendor was identified by the interviewer from a map of vendors at the fairground.
Secondly, as temporary sites, water distribution systems at fairgrounds may be unregulated, old, and inadequately maintained and configured.
