What is the cleanest lake in Orange County, Vermont?

Lake Fairlee in Orange County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Orange County, Vermont, with 21.7 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 Orange County, Vermont

Lake Fairlee in Orange County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 21.7 ft of clarity. Below are the top 10 cleanest monitored lakes in Orange County, Vermont, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Lake Fairlee	Orange	21.7 ft	14.3 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
2	Lake Morey	Orange	19.7 ft	15.2 µg/L	2.8 µg/L
3	Halls Lake	Orange	13.9 ft	13.1 µg/L	4.4 µg/L
4	North Pond	Orange	-	-	-
5	Lamson Pond	Orange	-	-	-
6	Baker Pond	Orange	-	-	-
7	Thurman W. Dix Reservoir	Orange	-	-	-
8	Round Pond	Orange	-	-	-
9	Lake Abenaki	Orange	-	-	-
10	Lake Fairlee	Orange	-	-	-

Ranked List

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