DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Environmental Council’s Weekly Water Watch lists a total of 16 beaches with an advisory this weekend. 15 have an E. coli Advisory and one with a Microcystin Advisory. The data is collected by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for state beaches. City and County beach information also available from a public beach page included by the Iowa Environmental Council.

There are 16 beach advisories for the week of 8/9

15 Beaches with an E. coli Advisory:
Backbone Beach (Dundee, Delaware County, IA)* 
Beed’s Lake Beach (Hampton, Franklin County, IA)*
Big Creek Beach (Polk City, Polk 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)* 
Lower Pine Lake Beach (Eldora, Hardin County, IA)*
McIntosh Woods Beach (Clear Lake, Ventura, Cerro Gordo County, IA)*
Nine Eagles Beach (Davis City, Decatur County, IA)*
North Overlook Beach (Lake Red Rock, Pella, Marion 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)*

1 Beach with a Microcystin Advisory:
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*

1 City and County Beach exceeds the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.*
View the map on our website to see where.

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 Iowa Environmental Council releases the Weekly Water Watch digitally on Friday.

(contributed press release, IEC)