A genus of bacteria that can cause water discoloration within a distribution system is the soil Arthrobacter group, hitherto unrecognized as a quality problem. It needs little nutrient and is possibly symbiotic with other organisms.
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Hugo T. Victoreen (1969) studied this question.
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