What is the cleanest lake in Leelanau County, Michigan?

South Bar Lake in Leelanau County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Leelanau County, Michigan, with 8.5 feet of measured water clarity.

How are these rankings calculated?

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.

Cleanest Lakes in Leelanau County, Michigan

South Bar Lake in Leelanau County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 8.5 ft of clarity. Below are the top 20 cleanest monitored lakes in Leelanau County, Michigan, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	South Bar Lake	Leelanau	8.5 ft	14 µg/L	3.8 µg/L
2	Brooks Lake	Leelanau	9.5 ft	10 µg/L	3.2 µg/L
3	Fisher Lake	Leelanau	-	10 µg/L	1 µg/L
4	Florence Lake	Leelanau	8.2 ft	16.6 µg/L	-
5	North Bar Lake	Leelanau	12.7 ft	9.3 µg/L	-
6	Bass Lake	Leelanau	11.2 ft	10.7 µg/L	-
7	Shell Lake	Leelanau	11.4 ft	10.7 µg/L	-
8	Manitou Lake	Leelanau	13.3 ft	13.1 µg/L	-
9	Mud Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
10	Leelanau, Lake North	Leelanau	-	-	-
11	Little Traverse Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
12	School Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
13	Glen Lake, Little	Leelanau	-	-	-
14	Cedar Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
15	Davis Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
16	Polack Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
17	Mougeys Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
18	Bass Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
19	Duck Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-
20	Leg Lake	Leelanau	-	-	-

Ranked List

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