What is the cleanest lake in Rice County, Minnesota?

Kelly Lake in Rice County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Rice County, Minnesota, with 8.2 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 Rice County, Minnesota

Kelly Lake in Rice County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 8.2 ft of clarity. Below are the top 14 cleanest monitored lakes in Rice County, Minnesota, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Kelly Lake	Rice	8.2 ft	29 µg/L	7.7 µg/L
2	Dudley Lake	Rice	9 ft	54 µg/L	13.6 µg/L
3	Cedar Lake	Rice	2 ft	91 µg/L	72.6 µg/L
4	Hunt Lake	Rice	3 ft	127 µg/L	60.7 µg/L
5	Cannon River Reservoir	Rice	-	-	-
6	Circle Lake	Rice	-	-	-
7	Mud Lake	Rice	-	-	-
8	Rice Lake	Rice	-	-	-
9	Weinberger Lake	Rice	-	-	-
10	Sprague Lake	Rice	-	-	-
11	Caron Lake	Rice	-	-	-
12	Hatch Lake	Rice	-	-	-
13	Metogga Lake	Rice	-	-	-
14	Duban Lake	Rice	-	-	-

Ranked List

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