What is the cleanest lake in Wright County, Minnesota?

Clearwater Lake in Wright County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Wright County, Minnesota, with 9.8 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 Wright County, Minnesota

Clearwater Lake in Wright County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 9.8 ft of clarity. Below are the top 50 cleanest monitored lakes in Wright County, Minnesota, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Clearwater Lake	Wright	9.8 ft	22 µg/L	6.3 µg/L
2	Birch Lake	Wright	15 ft	17 µg/L	4 µg/L
3	Ida Lake	Wright	13.1 ft	14 µg/L	3.4 µg/L
4	Upper Maple Lake	Wright	17.2 ft	17 µg/L	3.6 µg/L
5	Charlotte Lake	Wright	17.1 ft	13 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
6	Bass Lake	Wright	13.5 ft	12 µg/L	3.6 µg/L
7	Moose Lake	Wright	14.4 ft	12 µg/L	3.1 µg/L
8	Cedar Lake	Wright	14.3 ft	24 µg/L	4.6 µg/L
9	West Sylvia Lake	Wright	22 ft	8 µg/L	1.8 µg/L
10	Pleasant Lake	Wright	11.5 ft	17 µg/L	2.9 µg/L
11	Pulaski Lake	Wright	18 ft	12 µg/L	2.3 µg/L
12	Ember Lake	Wright	15.1 ft	16.5 µg/L	4 µg/L
13	East Sylvia Lake	Wright	21 ft	8 µg/L	2.2 µg/L
14	Sugar Lake	Wright	16.5 ft	14 µg/L	3.3 µg/L
15	John Lake	Wright	8 ft	22 µg/L	7.3 µg/L
16	Mud Lake	Wright	5.6 ft	28 µg/L	8.7 µg/L
17	Union Lake	Wright	5.5 ft	23.5 µg/L	9.9 µg/L
18	Mary Lake	Wright	8.9 ft	21 µg/L	8.3 µg/L
19	Brooks Lake	Wright	5.6 ft	33 µg/L	12.7 µg/L
20	Waverly Lake	Wright	6.9 ft	29 µg/L	8 µg/L
21	Crawford Lake	Wright	5.9 ft	25.5 µg/L	8.6 µg/L
22	Camp Lake	Wright	4.6 ft	70 µg/L	20 µg/L
23	Howard Lake	Wright	4 ft	57 µg/L	21.2 µg/L
24	Granite Lake	Wright	4.6 ft	42.5 µg/L	16 µg/L
25	Beebe Lake	Wright	4.6 ft	36 µg/L	26.5 µg/L
26	Ramsey Lake	Wright	4.3 ft	40 µg/L	19.8 µg/L
27	Locke Lake	Wright	3.9 ft	35 µg/L	17.8 µg/L
28	French Lake	Wright	4.3 ft	46 µg/L	23.1 µg/L
29	Gonz Lake	Wright	-	338 µg/L	21.2 µg/L
30	Fish Lake	Wright	3 ft	57 µg/L	33.1 µg/L
31	Ann Lake	Wright	4 ft	267 µg/L	34.7 µg/L
32	Foster Lake	Wright	1.6 ft	179 µg/L	97 µg/L
33	Mink Lake	Wright	3 ft	103 µg/L	59.6 µg/L
34	Martha Lake	Wright	3 ft	77.5 µg/L	68.1 µg/L
35	Caroline Lake	Wright	3.5 ft	53 µg/L	31.6 µg/L
36	Collinwood Lake	Wright	4 ft	135 µg/L	38.6 µg/L
37	Somers Lake	Wright	3.6 ft	62 µg/L	40.5 µg/L
38	Scott Lake	Wright	3.3 ft	110 µg/L	45 µg/L
39	Buffalo Lake	Wright	3 ft	47 µg/L	40.6 µg/L
40	Dean Lake	Wright	4.3 ft	324 µg/L	39.2 µg/L
41	Albion Lake	Wright	1 ft	105 µg/L	112 µg/L
42	Wilhelm Lake	Wright	2 ft	124 µg/L	60.5 µg/L
43	Little Waverly Lake	Wright	1.5 ft	604 µg/L	65 µg/L
44	Swartout Lake	Wright	4.6 ft	489 µg/L	52.6 µg/L
45	Henshaw Lake	Wright	1 ft	104 µg/L	86.6 µg/L
46	Little John Lake	Wright	-	-	-
47	Dans Lake	Wright	-	-	-
48	Kerkela Lake	Wright	-	-	-
49	Shakopee Lake	Wright	-	-	-
50	Butternut Lake	Wright	-	-	-

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