What is the cleanest lake in Chittenden County, Vermont?

Malletts Bay Lake in Chittenden County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Chittenden County, Vermont, with 13.8 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 Chittenden County, Vermont

Malletts Bay Lake in Chittenden County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 13.8 ft of clarity. Below are the top 13 cleanest monitored lakes in Chittenden County, Vermont, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Malletts Bay Lake	Chittenden	13.8 ft	10.2 µg/L	4 µg/L
2	Burlington Bay Lake	Chittenden	14.8 ft	11.1 µg/L	4.7 µg/L
3	Indian Brook Reservoir	Chittenden	12.1 ft	21.3 µg/L	6.3 µg/L
4	Lake Iroquois	Chittenden	11.8 ft	19.1 µg/L	8.4 µg/L
5	Shelburne Bay Lake	Chittenden	14.1 ft	11.4 µg/L	4.8 µg/L
6	Gillett Pond	Chittenden	3.1 ft	25.8 µg/L	6.6 µg/L
7	Colchester Pond	Chittenden	8.9 ft	17.7 µg/L	4 µg/L
8	Shelburne Pond	Chittenden	1.8 ft	130 µg/L	51.5 µg/L
9	Round Pond	Chittenden	-	-	-
10	Long Pond	Chittenden	-	-	-
11	Arrowhead Mountain Lake	Chittenden	-	-	-
12	Milton Pond	Chittenden	-	-	-
13	Lower Pond	Chittenden	-	-	-

Ranked List

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