Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Pottawattamie County, Iowa?

Accepted Answer

Arrowhead Lake in Pottawattamie County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 1.8 ft of clarity. Below are the top 3 cleanest monitored lakes in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Pottawattamie County, Iowa?

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Arrowhead Lake in Pottawattamie County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, with 1.8 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	Arrowhead Lake	Pottawattamie	1.8 ft	136 µg/L	53.6 µg/L
2	Lake Manawa	Pottawattamie	1 ft	110.5 µg/L	77 µg/L
3	Nobles Lake	Pottawattamie	-	-	-

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