DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Environmental Council has released the weekly water watch and has included the Iowa DNR’s information on beach advisories headed into this weekend. This week, there area a dozen advisories and one beach closed.

There are 12 beach advisories for the week of 7/15

10 Beaches with an E. coli-related Advisory:
Backbone Beach (Dundee, Delaware County, IA)*
Beed’s Lake Beach (Hampton, Franklin County, IA)*
Big Creek Beach (Polk City, Polk County, IA)*
Black Hawk Beach (Lake View, Sac County, IA)*
Emerson Bay Beach (Milford, Dickinson County, IA)*
George Wyth Beach (Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA)*
Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)*
Lower Pine Lake Beach (Eldora, Hardin County, IA)*
Prairie Rose Beach (Harlan, Shelby County, IA)*
West Overlook Beach (Coralville Lake, Coralville, Johnson County, IA)**

2 Beaches with a Microcystin-related Advisory:
Geode Beach (Danville, Des Moines County, IA)*
Green Valley Beach (Creston, Union County, IA)*

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

1 Beach Closure

Lake of Three Fires is temporarily closed for swimming.
A Missouri resident who swam in Lake of Three Fires has a confirmed infection from Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the “brain-eating amoeba.” There is no new information to share at this time other than the beach has been sampled and the samples have been sent to the CDC laboratory. The beach will remain closed pending test results.

(Contributed information from Iowa Environmental Council Weekly Water Watch)