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Iowa #48Lakes Initiative, Summer of 2025
Summer 2025
Iowa’s #48Lakes Initiative
@ 48 Dangerously Polluted Public Beaches
Interested in visiting a lake to share your stories of Iowa’s water pollution?
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48 Dangerously Polluted Public Beaches in Iowa
Volunteers will be visiting #48Lakes across Iowa to highlight the loss of Iowa’s public waters to pollution and call for the end of our #NoSwimEra.
If you are interested in participating, please RSVP above or contact us for more information.
During the Great Depression, supported by the federal government, the State of Iowa constructed some of the nation’s best state parks. Many featured manmade lakes and public beaches. For generations, these sites provided middle class families opportunities to swim, boat, fish and socialize. In recent years, industrial farming pollutants have created dangerous water conditions. Most of the beaches, for many summer weekends, are closed to public use. It’s time to push back. During Memorial Day Weekend, May 24–26, at 48 of Iowa’s state park public beach facilities, DWD is leading an effort to bring public attention to this serious problem.
Questions? Collaborations?
Call (319)-541-4240
#NoSwimEra #48Lakes
Let’s Call It the Beginning of the End of
Iowa’s #NoSwimEra
Summer 2025
@ 48 Dangerously Polluted Public Beaches
Driftless Water Defenders #48Lakes Initiative, summer 2025