Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Van Buren County, Iowa?

Accepted Answer

Lacey Keosauqua Lake in Van Buren County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 7.1 ft of clarity. Below are the top 3 cleanest monitored lakes in Van Buren County, Iowa, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Van Buren County, Iowa?

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Lacey Keosauqua Lake in Van Buren County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Van Buren County, Iowa, with 7.1 feet of measured water clarity.

Question 3

How are these rankings calculated?

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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	Lacey Keosauqua Lake	Van Buren	7.1 ft	21.5 µg/L	4.7 µg/L
2	Indian Lake	Van Buren	1.2 ft	158 µg/L	89.1 µg/L
3	Lake Sugema	Van Buren	2.3 ft	57 µg/L	32.5 µg/L

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