DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Natural Resources does the weekly monitoring of beaches during the summer season. The Iowa Environmental Council uses the Weekly Water Watch to help spread the word about those beach conditions. This Advisories have been put in place for 15 beaches.
There are 15 beach advisories for the week of 7/11
13 Beaches with an E. coli Advisory:
Backbone Beach (Dundee, Delaware County, IA)*
Beed’s Lake Beach (Hampton, Franklin County, IA)*
Bobwhite State Park (Allerton, Wayne County, IA)*
Denison Beach (Black Hawk Lake, Lake View, Sac County, IA)*
Lake Ahquabi Beach (Indianola, Warren County, IA)*
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*
Lake Manawa Beach (Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA)*
Lake of Three Fires Beach (Bedford, Taylor County, IA)*
Lewis and Clark Beach (Blue Lake, Onawa, Monona County, IA)*
Nine Eagles Beach (Davis City, Decatur County, IA)*
Pleasant Creek Lake Beach (Palo, Linn County, IA)*
Prairie Rose Beach (Harlan, Shelby County, IA)*
Union Grove Beach (Gladbrook, Tama County, IA)*
2 Beaches with a Microcystin Advisory
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*
McIntosh Woods Beach (Clear Lake, Ventura, Cerro Gordo County, IA)*
5 City and County Beaches exceed the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.*
(City and County beaches do not report levels of algal toxins)
View the map on our website to see where.
Note: Monitoring has been suspended at Lake Keomah due to renovation activities.
The 5 City and County Beaches exceeding the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli does include Don Williams Lake Beach.
The Weekly Water Watch from the Iowa Environmental Council is released digitally on Friday.
*Data from the Iowa DNR State Park Beach Monitoring Program
**Data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District
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