What is the cleanest lake in Essex County, Vermont?

Maidstone Lake in Essex County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Essex County, Vermont, with 28.5 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 Essex County, Vermont

Maidstone Lake in Essex County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 28.5 ft of clarity. Below are the top 9 cleanest monitored lakes in Essex County, Vermont, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Maidstone Lake	Essex	28.5 ft	7.2 µg/L	1.5 µg/L
2	Little Averill Pond	Essex	19.4 ft	6.6 µg/L	1.6 µg/L
3	Shadow Lake	Essex	16.4 ft	7.3 µg/L	1.5 µg/L
4	Miles Pond	Essex	13.1 ft	10.6 µg/L	2.5 µg/L
5	Great Averill Pond	Essex	14.3 ft	6.7 µg/L	1.8 µg/L
6	Norton Pond	Essex	7.9 ft	11.3 µg/L	2.4 µg/L
7	Spectacle Pond	Essex	-	-	-
8	McConnell Pond	Essex	-	-	-
9	Wheeler Pond	Essex	-	-	-

Ranked List

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