DES MOINES, Iowa—There are a dozen beaches listed this week on the Iowa Environmental Council’s Weekly Water Watch Report. The Report is released Friday and uses information collected by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

There are 12 beach advisories for the week of 7/12

11 Beaches with an E. coli Advisory:
Backbone Beach (Dundee, Delaware County, IA)* 
Beed’s Lake Beach (Hampton, Franklin County, IA)*
Denison Beach (Black Hawk Lake, Lake View, Sac County, IA)* 
George Wyth Beach (Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA)*
Lake Ahquabi Beach (Indianola, Warren County, IA)*  
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*
Lake of Three Fires Beach (Bedford, Taylor County, IA)* 
Lower Pine Lake Beach (Eldora, Hardin County, IA)*
Nine Eagles Beach (Davis City, Decatur County, IA)*
Prairie Rose Beach (Harlan, Shelby County, IA)* 
Union Grove Beach (Gladbrook, Tama County, IA)*

1 Beach with a Microcystin Advisory:
McIntosh Woods Beach (Clear Lake, Ventura, Cerro Gordo County, IA)*  

3 City and County Beaches exceed the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.*
View the map on our website to see where they are.

Note: Due to flooding and high waters, the following beaches were not tested: Crandalls Beach, Marble Beach, Orleans City Beach, Triboji Beach, Pikes Point Beach, Gull Point Beach, and Emerson Bay Beach. Saylorville’s Oak Grove Beach and Red Rock’s Whitebreast Beach and North Overlook Beach are closed due to flooding.

*Data from the Iowa DNR State Park Beach Monitoring Program

The Iowa Environmental Council releases it’s Weekly Water Report digitally on Friday.

(contributed press release, IEC)