What is the cleanest lake in Carver County, Minnesota?

Brickyard Lake in Carver County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Carver County, Minnesota, with 15 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 Carver County, Minnesota

Brickyard Lake in Carver County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 15 ft of clarity. Below are the top 50 cleanest monitored lakes in Carver County, Minnesota, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Brickyard Lake	Carver	15 ft	15 µg/L	4.1 µg/L
2	Courthouse Lake	Carver	18.9 ft	14 µg/L	2.4 µg/L
3	Fireman'S Lake	Carver	10.7 ft	23.5 µg/L	3.3 µg/L
4	Auburn Lake	Carver	6.4 ft	31 µg/L	7.2 µg/L
5	Ann Lake	Carver	8.7 ft	29 µg/L	8.9 µg/L
6	Zumbra-Sunny Lake	Carver	9.8 ft	27.6 µg/L	5.1 µg/L
7	Waconia Lake	Carver	7.3 ft	30 µg/L	9.8 µg/L
8	Bavaria Lake	Carver	5.1 ft	35 µg/L	21.7 µg/L
9	Lotus Lake	Carver	5.7 ft	40.5 µg/L	19.5 µg/L
10	Steiger Lake	Carver	5 ft	41.5 µg/L	13.3 µg/L
11	Lucy Lake	Carver	3.9 ft	62 µg/L	20.7 µg/L
12	Muewissen Lake	Carver	1.8 ft	98.5 µg/L	18.7 µg/L
13	Jonathan Lake	Carver	1.6 ft	157.5 µg/L	80 µg/L
14	Eagle Lake	Carver	2 ft	169 µg/L	93.8 µg/L
15	East Auburn Lake	Carver	5 ft	57 µg/L	31.8 µg/L
16	Grace Lake	Carver	2.6 ft	91.5 µg/L	58.2 µg/L
17	Wassermann Lake	Carver	2.3 ft	76 µg/L	48.1 µg/L
18	Big Woods Lake	Carver	1.5 ft	197 µg/L	113 µg/L
19	Goose Lake	Carver	1.2 ft	132.5 µg/L	160.5 µg/L
20	Benton Lake	Carver	1 ft	161 µg/L	104 µg/L
21	Hazeltine Lake	Carver	1 ft	142 µg/L	136.5 µg/L
22	Burandt Lake	Carver	3.9 ft	46 µg/L	35.9 µg/L
23	Miller Lake	Carver	1.6 ft	211 µg/L	108 µg/L
24	Mcknight Lake	Carver	2.2 ft	146 µg/L	58 µg/L
25	Hydes Lake	Carver	2.3 ft	94 µg/L	59.9 µg/L
26	Parley Lake	Carver	1.8 ft	100 µg/L	61.4 µg/L
27	Susan Lake	Carver	2.6 ft	80.5 µg/L	49 µg/L
28	Swede Lake	Carver	2 ft	134 µg/L	76.9 µg/L
29	Reitz Lake	Carver	3 ft	53 µg/L	36.8 µg/L
30	Lippert Lake	Carver	-	-	-
31	Rutz Lake	Carver	-	-	-
32	Mud Lake	Carver	-	-	-
33	Schutz Lake	Carver	-	-	-
34	Tamarack Lake	Carver	-	-	-
35	Long Lake	Carver	-	-	-
36	Scott Lake	Carver	-	-	-
37	Kelly Lake	Carver	-	-	-
38	Aue Lake	Carver	-	-	-
39	Chaska Lake	Carver	-	-	-
40	Carl Krey Lake	Carver	-	-	-
41	Marsh Lake	Carver	-	-	-
42	Turbid Lake	Carver	-	-	-
43	Swan Lake	Carver	-	-	-
44	Winkler Lake	Carver	-	-	-
45	Rice Lake	Carver	-	-	-
46	Young America Lake	Carver	-	-	-
47	Brand Lake	Carver	-	-	-
48	Braunworth Lake	Carver	-	-	-
49	Lake Patterson	Carver	-	-	-
50	Berliner Lake	Carver	-	-	-

Ranked List

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