9 Beaches with an E. coli-related Advisory: Backbone Beach (Dundee, Delaware County, IA)* Big Creek Beach (Polk City, Polk County, IA)* Brushy Creek Beach (Lehigh, Webster County, IA)* Emerson Bay Beach (West Okoboji Lake, Milford, Dickinson County, IA)* George Wyth Beach (Waterloo, Black Hawk County, IA)* Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)* Lake of Three Fires Beach (Bedford, Taylor County, IA)* - see notice below Lower Pine Lake Beach (Eldora, Hardin County, IA)* Union Grove Beach (Gladbrook, Tama County, IA)* 1 Beach with a Microcystin-related Advisory: Lake Darling Beach (Brighton, Washington County, IA)* 7 City and County Beaches exceed the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.* View the map on our website to see where they are. *Data from the Iowa DNR State Park Beach Monitoring Program **Data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District NOTICE: Lake of Three Fires is now open. The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Iowa DNR, and the CDC have confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in Lake of Three Fires. HHS and DNR recommend that Iowans assume the amoeba is present and take precautions to limit the amount of water going up recreationists noses. Read the full press release. |