Question 1

Cleanest Lakes in Wise County, Virginia?

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Wise Lake in Wise County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 10.5 ft of clarity. Below are the top 3 cleanest monitored lakes in Wise County, Virginia, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Question 2

What is the cleanest lake in Wise County, Virginia?

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Wise Lake in Wise County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Wise County, Virginia, with 10.5 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	Wise Lake	Wise	10.5 ft	10 µg/L	2.2 µg/L
2	Sta Big Cherry Reservoir East of Big Stone	Wise	12.5 ft	10 µg/L	2.1 µg/L
3	North Fork Pound Reservoir@Dam	Wise	12.1 ft	10 µg/L	2 µg/L

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