Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Ripley County, Missouri?

Accepted Answer

Fourche Creek Lake in Ripley County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 13.6 ft of clarity. Below are the top 3 cleanest monitored lakes in Ripley County, Missouri, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Ripley County, Missouri?

Accepted Answer

Fourche Creek Lake in Ripley County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Ripley County, Missouri, with 13.6 feet of measured water clarity.

Question 3

How are these rankings calculated?

Accepted Answer

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.

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Fourche Creek Lake	Ripley	13.6 ft	9.1 µg/L	1.2 µg/L
2	Ripley County Lake	Ripley	6.6 ft	10.7 µg/L	2.3 µg/L
3	Glen Holland Lake	Ripley	-	-	-

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