What is the cleanest lake in Bennington County, Vermont?

Big Pond in Bennington County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Bennington County, Vermont, with 7.5 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 Bennington County, Vermont

Big Pond in Bennington County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 7.5 ft of clarity. Below are the top 10 cleanest monitored lakes in Bennington County, Vermont, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Big Pond	Bennington	7.5 ft	13 µg/L	3.9 µg/L
2	Hapgood Pond	Bennington	9.2 ft	11.8 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
3	Stamford Pond	Bennington	9.5 ft	12.6 µg/L	-
4	Branch Pond	Bennington	7.9 ft	16.2 µg/L	6.7 µg/L
5	Gale Meadows Pond	Bennington	-	-	-
6	Howe Pond	Bennington	-	-	-
7	Lake Hancock	Bennington	-	-	-
8	Thompsons Pond	Bennington	-	-	-
9	Lake Madeleine	Bennington	-	-	-
10	Emerald Lake	Bennington	-	-	-

Ranked List

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