DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Environmental Council provides a digital press release called the Weekly Water Watch which includes the data from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources testing for water quality state beaches. The information also includes data for county and city beaches.

There are 3 beach advisories for the week of 5/30

3 Beaches with an E. coli Advisory:
Black Hawk Beach (Lake View, Sac County, IA)*
Lower Pine Lake Beach (Eldora, Hardin County, IA)*
McIntosh Woods Beach (Clear Lake, Ventura, Cerro Gordo County, IA)*

0 Beaches with a Microcystin Advisory

1 City and County Beach exceeds the state’s advisory threshold for E. coli.*
(City and County beaches do not report levels of algal toxins) 
View the map on our website to see where.

Note: Monitoring has been suspended at Lake Keomah due to renovation activities.

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

(contributed information IEC and IADNR)