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Spring Lake reservoir of Macomb, Illinois, is a typical model of the drinking water supply of some midwestern towns of the United States. Water samples collected periodically in 1980 and 1981 from this lake were tested for mutagenicity using the Tradescantia micronucleus (Trad-MCN) test, a highly sensitive mutagen-detecting bioassay. Water samples from 1981 were also analyzed chemically. The micronucleus (MCN) frequency peaked (12-14 MCN/100 tetrads) in mid-July in both years, as compared with the average frequency (5 MCN/100 tetrads) of the base-line control that was maintained in nutrient solution (prepared with distilled water and pure chemicals). Drinking water from the tap was tested in parallel with lake water, and its mutagenicity tended to fluctuate with the mutagenicity of the lake water.
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