Weather, environmental, animal or human factors can contaminate water shortly after routine water tests show the beach to be safe. Bathing Please abide by the precautions outlined at the time the Boil Water Advisory was announced. These precautions have not changed. They are in place to ensure that E. coli infection does not occur. For this reason, when it comes to bathing, the Public Health Unit recommends that children receive sponge baths, not tub baths.
Children are prone to swallowing bath water.
Adults may bathe in a tub as long as they do not ingest the water and as long as they do not have broken skin or open sores. After tub bathing or showering, hands must be washed in chlorinated water. Children's Wading Pools Wading pools should not be filled with Walkerton municipal water for the same reason children are asked to have sponge baths. Household bleach is unstable in sunlight and, unlike public swimming pools, wading pools are not chlorinated at a steady rate, filtered or monitored. The addition of grass or organic matter from children's feet renders the chlorine ineffective.