Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Granville County, North Carolina?

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Lake Butner in Granville County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 5.4 ft of clarity. Below are the top 2 cleanest monitored lakes in Granville County, North Carolina, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Granville County, North Carolina?

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Lake Butner in Granville County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Granville County, North Carolina, with 5.4 feet of measured water clarity.

Question 3

How are these rankings calculated?

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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	Lake Butner	Granville	5.4 ft	40 µg/L	11 µg/L
2	Lake Rogers	Granville	1.4 ft	105 µg/L	60.5 µg/L

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