DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Environmental Council Weekly Water Watch has been released and this week the data from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources list advisories for a total of 15 beaches.

There are 15 beach advisories for the week of 7/26

13 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)* 
Emerson Bay Beach (West Okoboji Lake, Milford, Dickinson 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)* 
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)* 
Sugar Bottom Campground Beach (Coralville Lake, Coralville, Johnson County, IA)**
Union Grove Beach (Gladbrook, Tama County, IA)*

2 Beaches with a Microcystin Advisory:
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*
Rock Creek Beach (Kellogg, Jasper County, IA)* 

6 City and County Beach exceed the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.*
View the map on our website to see where it is.

Note: Lake Keomah has been completely drained for lake renovations activities and the beach is closed for the remainder of the season. Oak Grove Beach at Saylorville Lake remains closed due to flooding.

*Data from the Iowa DNR State Park Beach Monitoring Program
**Data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District

The data is collected by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the Iowa Environmental Council releases the information in a digital format in it’s Weekly Water Watch on Friday’s. On a local note, any testing of the water at the Don Williams Recreational Area did not reveal any levels of concern.

(contributed press release, IEC)