Here are the swimming spots you should avoid this summer – the whole list

Several Swedish EU baths are rejected.
Now TV4 Nyheterna can show the entire list of the 18 bathing spots you should avoid this summer.
– Du can get sick if you swallow the water, says Ema Glad, investigator at the Norwegian Sea and Water Authority.

Swedish bathing water gets good grades and more and more are stamped with excellent quality. Sweden has 468 EU baths and they have more than 200 bathers on average per day. Nine out of ten of them have excellent, good or satisfactory bathing water quality.

But there are bathing spots you should avoid – 18 to be precise. Namely, they have poor bathing water quality.

“For these baths, the municipality needs to investigate sources of pollution and possible measures,” says Ema Glad, investigator at the Norwegian Sea and Water Authority in a press release.

The whole list

The water is classified as bad if elevated bacteria levels are found on one or more occasions in the last four years. Now TV4 Nyheterna can show all the 18 bathing spots you should avoid.

The list from the Norwegian Sea and Water Authority includes Smedsuddsbadet and Långholmen beach in Stockholm, Tumlehed in Gothenburg as well as Hamnhusen and the T-bryggan in Lomma.

– The higher the quality class, the less presence of indicator bacteria during the last four bathing seasons. Unusable water means that one or both of the indicator bacteria for which the water is analyzed are found in high concentrations in the bathing water. Then there is also a risk that there are other microorganisms in the water that you as a bather can get sick from if you swallow the water, says Ema Glad.