I live there, it is bad now but everything will be pretty much cleaned up by the 4th of july. Big Pig will happen. The area of the race is pretty flooded but it is actually not the cedar river where we swim. the actual lake isn't too bad.

I live in Cedar Rapids. The lake in which we swim is actually a man made reservoir that sits about a mile from the Cedar River and is at an elevation that is probably about 50 feet above the normal level of the Cedar River. When the river flooded, it never got high enough to actually make it into the lake. So I wouldn't worry about any contamination.

The level of the lake is pretty high from all of the rain we had. But because it is a reservoir, there is a drain gate that maintains level at a maximum. It was draining pretty good during all of the rain last week.

I would be more concerned with the run. The run course goes north on Lewis Bottoms road (out and back). That road is currently closed because there is a good stretch that was washed away (and by stretch I'm talking 100's of yards). The river actually made a new channel. I would not be surprised if, in order to repair the road, they had to make a cofferdam upstream to reroute the river back to it's main channel so they can repair the road.

The race is still two months away, so there is plenty of time to figure it all out.

Here is the Iowa DNR's website for Pleasant Creek Park:

http://www.iowadnr.gov/parks/state_park_list/pleasant_creek.html