Earlier this week, the Sea and Water Authority released this year's assessment of EU baths in Sweden. In Helsingborg, eight of nine bathing places were approved.

On the other hand, it did not get Vikingstrand - it prayed that the City of Helsingborg markets as the best for people with disabilities.

Here the bathing water is now classified as bad. The water on Vikingstrand has been tested on 56 occasions in four years - in seven of these the water has been unfit.

Thus, the public is advised not to swim there - all summer long. Even in previous years, bathing water has been dumped on the bathing area.

"Of course, it's very boring," says Elisabet Lindberg, beach manager at the city building administration in the city of Helsingborg.

Not a bathing ban

But she also points out that there is no bathing ban on Viking beach.

- This assessment is based on old figures and indicates that this is a beach that tends to have more worse samples than others. But our own measurements can show excellent water quality during the summer, so we encourage people to keep track of our bathing water forecast, which is on the municipality's website, says Elisabeth Lindberg.

Viking beach is marketed as handicapped accessible with specially adapted changing rooms, toilets and ramp. But the bathing water is not good enough, according to the Swedish Maritime and Water Authority's assessment. Photo: Johan Dernelius

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Four levels on the water

In Sweden, the bathing places that have more than 200 bathers per day during the bathing season are to be registered as EU baths. The bathing water at these bathing areas is controlled according to certain rules and is classified on four levels: excellent, good, satisfactory or bad.

If the bathing water is bad, there should be a sign that discourages bathing.