Andie Dominick's blog -- DMRegister June 7th, 2006 :: 11:06 PM I’m on vacation. I headed to the beach today with my husband and three kids. We packed a cooler, blankets and sunscreen and headed for the water. I put my foot in at Big Creek beach and the smell was overpowering. It smelled like waste. Pig waste. I felt like we were wading in a lagoon. Yet there were boats everywhere, kids splashing, a man swimming laps around the perimeter. And I wondered if Iowans even know there are places, not in Iowa, where the water is clean. We buy boats, take a dip, eat the fish from the lakes and just accept it. But there are places where the beach doesn’t smell like a lagoon from a hog lot. Why don’t Iowans demand this state finally clean up the water? Saylorville Lake is busy. The trees and grass and birds are beautiful. People gravitate there in the summer. But Iowa’s water is filthy. It’s a disgrace. Thinking about all the editorials Linda Fandel has written about this state’s filthy water, I kept telling my son to keep his face out of it. Tomorrow we’re going to a water park. I’ll take chlorine and cement over that experience any day. http://blogs.dmregister.com/?p=1731#more-1731 Neila Seaman, MPA Director Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280 Des Moines, IA 50310 [log in to unmask] 515-277-8868 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/