What is the cleanest lake in Becker County, Minnesota?

Bad Medicine Lake in Becker County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Becker County, Minnesota, with 25 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 Becker County, Minnesota

Bad Medicine Lake in Becker County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 25 ft of clarity. Below are the top 50 cleanest monitored lakes in Becker County, Minnesota, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Bad Medicine Lake	Becker	25 ft	6 µg/L	1.6 µg/L
2	Mud Lake	Becker	12.5 ft	22 µg/L	5.9 µg/L
3	Big Sugar Bush Lake	Becker	16.5 ft	10 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
4	Long Lake	Becker	19.5 ft	8 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
5	Detroit Lake	Becker	14 ft	17 µg/L	3.3 µg/L
6	Sallie Lake	Becker	13 ft	21 µg/L	4.9 µg/L
7	Ida Lake	Becker	12.1 ft	23 µg/L	5.3 µg/L
8	Little Toad Lake	Becker	15 ft	18 µg/L	5.1 µg/L
9	Island Lake	Becker	15 ft	19 µg/L	3.2 µg/L
10	Turtle Lake	Becker	23 ft	8 µg/L	1.9 µg/L
11	Pickerel Lake	Becker	18 ft	11 µg/L	2 µg/L
12	Middle Cormorant Lake	Becker	15.1 ft	13 µg/L	3.3 µg/L
13	Elbow Lake	Becker	12.1 ft	14 µg/L	4.8 µg/L
14	Floyd Lake	Becker	13.1 ft	12 µg/L	3.6 µg/L
15	Glawe Lake	Becker	10.8 ft	19 µg/L	2.8 µg/L
16	Melissa Lake	Becker	13.1 ft	18 µg/L	4.5 µg/L
17	Pine Lake	Becker	8.9 ft	15 µg/L	4.4 µg/L
18	Big Cormorant Lake	Becker	24.8 ft	16.5 µg/L	2.2 µg/L
19	Maud Lake	Becker	17 ft	10 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
20	Fox Lake	Becker	14 ft	14.5 µg/L	3.3 µg/L
21	Loon Lake	Becker	7.4 ft	14.5 µg/L	2.5 µg/L
22	Juggler Lake	Becker	18 ft	7 µg/L	1.8 µg/L
23	Johnson Lake	Becker	9.5 ft	19 µg/L	3.2 µg/L
24	Little Floyd Lake	Becker	11 ft	21 µg/L	6.2 µg/L
25	Eunice Lake	Becker	13.5 ft	11 µg/L	3.2 µg/L
26	Meadow Lake	Becker	14 ft	12.5 µg/L	3.5 µg/L
27	Pearl Lake	Becker	10 ft	18 µg/L	5.3 µg/L
28	Big Rush Lake	Becker	6 ft	13.5 µg/L	4.7 µg/L
29	Carman Lake	Becker	7.9 ft	18 µg/L	6 µg/L
30	South Tamarac Lake	Becker	6 ft	21 µg/L	3.7 µg/L
31	Many Point Lake	Becker	10.7 ft	15.5 µg/L	6.3 µg/L
32	Flat Lake	Becker	11.2 ft	13 µg/L	3.7 µg/L
33	Bass Lake	Becker	7.9 ft	20 µg/L	8.2 µg/L
34	Upper Cormorant Lake	Becker	8 ft	30 µg/L	9.9 µg/L
35	Spear Lake	Becker	10.3 ft	28 µg/L	4.5 µg/L
36	Toad Lake	Becker	7 ft	27 µg/L	8 µg/L
37	Height of Land Lake	Becker	6.6 ft	27 µg/L	8.6 µg/L
38	Beseau Lake	Becker	7.7 ft	29.5 µg/L	10.2 µg/L
39	Blackbird Lake	Becker	7.5 ft	29 µg/L	5.3 µg/L
40	Winter Lake	Becker	6.9 ft	22 µg/L	11.6 µg/L
41	St Clair Lake	Becker	4 ft	50 µg/L	14.3 µg/L
42	Waboose Lake	Becker	3 ft	35 µg/L	20 µg/L
43	North Tamarac Lake	Becker	3.9 ft	36 µg/L	21.4 µg/L
44	Mallard Lake	Becker	3.6 ft	43 µg/L	13.4 µg/L
45	Oak Lake	Becker	3 ft	40.5 µg/L	39.6 µg/L
46	Upper Egg Lake	Becker	3 ft	53 µg/L	33.8 µg/L
47	Town Lake	Becker	-	-	-
48	Fischer Lake	Becker	-	-	-
49	Albertson Lake	Becker	-	-	-
50	Dead Lake	Becker	-	-	-

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