Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Dougherty County, Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Lake Worth in Dougherty County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 3.7 ft of clarity. Below are the top 7 cleanest monitored lakes in Dougherty County, Georgia, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Dougherty County, Georgia?

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Lake Worth in Dougherty County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Dougherty County, Georgia, with 3.7 feet of measured water clarity.

Question 3

How are these rankings calculated?

Accepted Answer

Nutrients and algae, total phosphorus, nitrogen, chlorophyll-a and turbidity, are read against EPA National Lakes Assessment 2022 condition classes for that lake’s ecoregion. Water clarity (Secchi depth) is measured and shown separately. Lakes without enough recent samples are listed without a condition class rather than ranked low. Source data comes from the EPA Water Quality Portal.

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Lake Worth	Dougherty	3.7 ft	46.9 µg/L	5 µg/L
2	Flint River Reservoir	Dougherty	4.3 ft	30 µg/L	4.8 µg/L
3	Bird Roost Pond	Dougherty	-	-	-
4	Windmill Pond	Dougherty	-	-	-
5	Big Cypress Lake	Dougherty	-	-	-
6	Lake Loretta	Dougherty	-	-	-
7	Rawls Pond	Dougherty	-	-	-

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