Update: Police identify man found submerged in pond at Iowa City's Pleasant Valley Golf Course

A person was found dead in a pond at the Pleasant Valley Golf Course on Wednesday.

A caller contacted the Joint Emergency Communication Center at 1:39 p.m. on Aug. 14 to report a drowning at a pond at the south Iowa City golf course, the Johnson County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook .

Police identified the deceased on Thursday as 38-year-old Christopher Plowman of Tiffin.

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Authorities say man was trapped underwater

First responders, including the Hills Fire Department, the Johnson County Ambulance Service, and Johnson County Emergency Management, arrived on the scene shortly after the call and discovered Plowman was "fully submerged" in the pond, trapped under maintenance equipment.

First responders pulled the 38-year-old out of the water, where medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The sheriff's office release said Plowman had been in the water for an "unknown amount of time."

The sheriff's office is investigating the circumstances that may have led to the incident.

This is the third drowning in Johnson County this summer. A 20-year-old Iowa City man and a 34-year-old Cedar Rapids man were each found dead in Lake Macbride.

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Ryan Hansen covers local government and crime for the Press-Citizen. He can be reached at rhansen@press-citizen.com or on X, formerly known as Twitter, @ryanhansen01.

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