675461 news 1721064412 1721246662 <![CDATA[Will the Seine River’s E. coli Woes Sink Olympic Dreams in Paris?]]> Time is winding down on Olympic organizers’ plans to stage open-water swimming events in Paris’ iconic Seine River later this month. The city spent $1.5 billion on new infrastructure to clean up the Seine, yet water samples continue to show high levels of potentially toxic E. coli.

The river has been closed to swimmers for the past 100 years because of pollution, but Olympic organizers hope to stage the triathlon and marathon swimming events in the water flowing in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. 

Katherine Graham has followed the saga in Paris. She’s an assistant professor in the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering who studies the fate and transport of pathogens and their indicators in water, including E. coli. She said several factors are at play in the Seine.

“Paris, like most large cities, has a lot of concrete and not much dirt and grass for water to soak into." 

Read the entire story on the College of Engineering website. 

]]> 2024-07-15T00:00:00-04:00 Water engineer Katherine Graham talks about the Seine River, Paris' iconic waterway that hopes to host Olympic marathon swimming this month. The river has been closed for 100 years because of dirty water. 

]]> 674350 image <![CDATA[Paris Seine River]]> 257850 image/jpeg Jason Maderer
College of Engineering
maderer@gatech.edu

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