Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Lincoln County, Nebraska?

Accepted Answer

Hershey Lake in Lincoln County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 13.6 ft of clarity. Below are the top 7 cleanest monitored lakes in Lincoln County, Nebraska, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Lincoln County, Nebraska?

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Hershey Lake in Lincoln County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Lincoln County, Nebraska, with 13.6 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	Hershey Lake	Lincoln	13.6 ft	51.4 µg/L	2.1 µg/L
2	Lake Maloney	Lincoln	2.1 ft	47.8 µg/L	10.2 µg/L
3	Welfleet Lake	Lincoln	-	-	-
4	East Hershey Lake	Lincoln	-	-	-
5	Birdwood Lake	Lincoln	-	-	-
6	Sutherland Reservoir	Lincoln	-	-	-
7	East Sutherland Lake	Lincoln	-	-	-

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