Bathing Activities and Microbiological
River Water Quality in the Paris Area:
A Long-Term Perspective
Jean-Marie Mouchel, Françoise S. Lucas, Laurent Moulin,
Sébastien Wurtzer, Agathe Euzen, Jean-Paul Haghe, Vincent Rocher,
Sam Azimi, and Pierre Servais
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 324
2 Bathing in the Seine and Marne Rivers in Paris and Its Suburbs Has Recently Become
a Health Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
2.1 Bathing in Paris: Washing and Cooling Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
2.2 Bathing Despite Regulations and the Development of Industry and Harbors . . . . . . 327
2.3 Bathing in Suburban Areas: From the Middle of the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 327
2.4 A Social Control More Than a Matter of Public Sanitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
3 The Concept of Fecal Indicator Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
The copyright year of the original version of this chapter was corrected from 2019 to 2020.
A correction to this chapter can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_667
J.-M. Mouchel (*)
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR Metis, Paris, France
e-mail: jean-marie.mouchel@sorbonne-universite.fr
F. S. Lucas
Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Université Paris Est-Créteil, LEESU UMR-MA 102,
Créteil Cedex, France
L. Moulin and S. Wurtzer
R&D Department, Eau de Paris, Ivry sur Seine, France
A. Euzen
Université Paris Est, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, CNRS, UMR LATTS, Marne-la-Vallée, France
J.-P. Haghe
Université Paris-1, UMR 8586 PRODIG, Paris, France
V. Rocher and S. Azimi
R&D Department, SIAAP, Colombes, France
P. Servais
Ecology of Aquatic Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Nicolas Flipo, Pierre Labadie, and Laurence Lestel (eds.), The Seine River Basin,
Hdb Env Chem (2021) 90: 323–354, https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2019_397,
© The Author(s) 2020, corrected publication 2020, Published online: 3 June 2020
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River Water Quality in the Paris Area:
A Long-Term Perspective
Jean-Marie Mouchel, Françoise S. Lucas, Laurent Moulin,
Sébastien Wurtzer, Agathe Euzen, Jean-Paul Haghe, Vincent Rocher,
Sam Azimi, and Pierre Servais
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 324
2 Bathing in the Seine and Marne Rivers in Paris and Its Suburbs Has Recently Become
a Health Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
2.1 Bathing in Paris: Washing and Cooling Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
2.2 Bathing Despite Regulations and the Development of Industry and Harbors . . . . . . 327
2.3 Bathing in Suburban Areas: From the Middle of the Nineteenth Century . . . . . . . . . 327
2.4 A Social Control More Than a Matter of Public Sanitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
3 The Concept of Fecal Indicator Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
The copyright year of the original version of this chapter was corrected from 2019 to 2020.
A correction to this chapter can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_667
J.-M. Mouchel (*)
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, EPHE, UMR Metis, Paris, France
e-mail: jean-marie.mouchel@sorbonne-universite.fr
F. S. Lucas
Faculté des Sciences et Technologie, Université Paris Est-Créteil, LEESU UMR-MA 102,
Créteil Cedex, France
L. Moulin and S. Wurtzer
R&D Department, Eau de Paris, Ivry sur Seine, France
A. Euzen
Université Paris Est, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, CNRS, UMR LATTS, Marne-la-Vallée, France
J.-P. Haghe
Université Paris-1, UMR 8586 PRODIG, Paris, France
V. Rocher and S. Azimi
R&D Department, SIAAP, Colombes, France
P. Servais
Ecology of Aquatic Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Nicolas Flipo, Pierre Labadie, and Laurence Lestel (eds.), The Seine River Basin,
Hdb Env Chem (2021) 90: 323–354, https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2019_397,
© The Author(s) 2020, corrected publication 2020, Published online: 3 June 2020
323