HAMPTON – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources advises swimmers to avoid Beeds Lake in Hampton.
Due to an E coli outbreak, swimming not recommended at Beeds Lake, just north of Hampton in Franklion county. The Iowa DNR reports that an E. coli sample taken on May 26 showed 260, which is higher than the allowable one-time maximum standard based on a single sample (235 colony forming units of E. coli bacteria per 100 mL of water).
Ingesting or drinking water infected with too much E. coli could make a person sick. The beach remains open.
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We don’t discover our ecoli until after the forth of July weekend…
In the winter the geese gather around the open water caused by man when they put aerators in the lake.
Bird droppings and warm water = E coli.
Clear Lake has the same problems come July/August when the water temps rise.
Here again, we see modern man disrupting nature.
Get rid of the aerators and let nature take it’s course and the E coli outbreaks will cease.
Clear Lake had that problem before the aerators. It is when the lake turns over and it has been doing that as long as I can remember. Beed Lake is caused by the rich farmers trying to get richer by putting more and more fertilizer on the ground which then washes into the lake. Has nothing to do with aerators.
Exactly. Good science and common sense prevails LVS.