TROY'S TAP WATER STILL SAFE BACTERIUM NOT HARMFUL VARIETY.(Local)

Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer

The bacterium detected in the city water supply last week posed no threat to healthy people, and if it had been immediately identified there would have been no cause for alarm, state Health Department officials said Monday.

Routine water tests last week detected the presence of an unspecified coliform bacterium in the city's water supply, causing city and county officials to advise 100,000 customers in the Troy area to boil their water before drinking it.

Further testing determined that the bacterium was klebsiella pneumonia, a vegetable bacterium common in plants and soil.

"If we had known it was klebsiella …