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Iron‐precipitating bacteria are frequently cited as being involved in economically serious well and aquifer degradation that may also have a public health impact. Quantifying the populations of the iron‐precipitating bacteria present in ground water is a complex problem not yet resolved. A survey of historical and modern environmental literature provides numerous descriptions of iron bacteria in aquifers and wells, along with physicochemical data collected during bacterial sampling. These data are not conclusively linked with iron bacteria occurrence. Iron bacteria is a concept encompassing many genera and species of bacteria with varying morphology and physiology. Methods to detect bacteria and to quantify bacterial biomass in aquifers are being developed, but representative sampling remains a problem. Predictive analysis of iron bacterial growth awaits additional physiological and sampling research.
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