Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Taylor County, Iowa?

Accepted Answer

Wilson Lake in Taylor County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 1.6 ft of clarity. Below are the top 5 cleanest monitored lakes in Taylor County, Iowa, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Taylor County, Iowa?

Accepted Answer

Wilson Lake in Taylor County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Taylor County, Iowa, with 1.6 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	Wilson Lake	Taylor	1.6 ft	96.5 µg/L	48.3 µg/L
2	Lake of Three Fires Max Depth	Taylor	2 ft	89 µg/L	58.6 µg/L
3	Windmill Lake	Taylor	2.5 ft	94 µg/L	33.9 µg/L
4	East Lake	Taylor	-	-	-
5	Bedford Water Supply Lake	Taylor	-	-	-

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