More drinking-water systems across Colorado are treating their water with chlorine following the deadly salmonella outbreak in Alamosa last year. State health officials announced Wednesday that animal waste that seeped into an underground storage tank likely caused the outbreak. The report said that the bacteria may not have grown had Alamosa used chlorine to disinfect its water supply.

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