What is the cleanest lake in Boone County, Missouri?

Finger Lakes in Boone County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Boone County, Missouri, with 7.9 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 Boone County, Missouri

Finger Lakes in Boone County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 7.9 ft of clarity. Below are the top 12 cleanest monitored lakes in Boone County, Missouri, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Finger Lakes	Boone	7.9 ft	16.5 µg/L	6.1 µg/L
2	Phillips Lake	Boone	2.8 ft	35.5 µg/L	8.8 µg/L
3	Bethel Lake	Boone	2.2 ft	32.7 µg/L	9.5 µg/L
4	Mckee Pond	Boone	3.3 ft	56 µg/L	18.1 µg/L
5	Tri City Lake	Boone	-	76 µg/L	24.7 µg/L
6	Ashland Lake	Boone	1.9 ft	92.2 µg/L	43.6 µg/L
7	Rocky Fork Lake	Boone	2.3 ft	73.8 µg/L	38.1 µg/L
8	Cedar Lake	Boone	2.1 ft	98 µg/L	30.8 µg/L
9	Lake Champetra	Boone	-	-	-
10	Lake Caroline	Boone	-	-	-
11	Bo Co Mo Lake	Boone	-	-	-
12	Silver Creek Lake	Boone	-	-	-

Ranked List

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