{"id":261124,"date":"2026-08-07T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261124\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:50:09","slug":"legionella-found-in-water-at-allegheny-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261124\/","title":{"rendered":"Legionella found in water at Allegheny County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Legionella bacteria found in water at Allegheny County Jail downtown facility, officials say<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Legionella bacteria was found in the water at the Allegheny County Jail\u2019s downtown facility.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the jail, testing of two officer bathrooms confirmed the presence of the bacteria in those fixtures.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The bathrooms have been closed since initial testing in July and will remain closed until remediation is completed.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Jail officials said there have been no confirmed cases of Legionella-related illnesses among staff or inmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legionella bacteria found in water at Allegheny County Jail downtown facility, officials say PITTSBURGH \u2014 Legionella bacteria was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,9647,110670,110671,110666,110678,110672,110674,110673,105969,110676,110677,110668,28,73,75,74,33802,110675,110669,110667,102314],"class_list":["post-261124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county","tag-allegheny-county-jail","tag-bacteria-in-water","tag-bathroom-closure","tag-downtown-facility","tag-health-concern","tag-initial-testing","tag-jail-officials","tag-july-testing","tag-legionella-bacteria","tag-legionella-illness","tag-no-confirmed-cases","tag-officer-bathrooms","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-remediation","tag-staff-inmates","tag-testing-confirmed","tag-water-fixtures","tag-water-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}