What is the cleanest lake in Rutland County, Vermont?

Lake St. Catherine in Rutland County has the cleanest nutrient and algae readings in Rutland County, Vermont, with 15.4 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 Rutland County, Vermont

Lake St. Catherine in Rutland County leads the rankings on measured clarity and nutrients and 15.4 ft of clarity. Below are the top 25 cleanest monitored lakes in Rutland County, Vermont, ranked on EPA nutrient and algae measurements.

Ranked List

#	Lake	County	Clarity	Phosphorus	Algae
1	Lake St. Catherine	Rutland	15.4 ft	13.2 µg/L	2.7 µg/L
2	Wallingford Pond	Rutland	7.1 ft	15.3 µg/L	3.9 µg/L
3	Lake Hortonia	Rutland	14.8 ft	15.5 µg/L	2.8 µg/L
4	Echo Lake	Rutland	24.3 ft	10.1 µg/L	1.3 µg/L
5	Sunset Lake	Rutland	36.1 ft	8.5 µg/L	1.3 µg/L
6	Chipman Lake	Rutland	9.4 ft	15.9 µg/L	4.1 µg/L
7	Lake Bomoseen	Rutland	23.6 ft	9.7 µg/L	1.2 µg/L
8	Elfin Lake	Rutland	10.8 ft	13.6 µg/L	4 µg/L
9	Lake Ninevah	Rutland	8.2 ft	11.4 µg/L	2 µg/L
10	Danby Pond	Rutland	2 ft	15.3 µg/L	2.8 µg/L
11	Little Pond	Rutland	4.9 ft	16.1 µg/L	3.4 µg/L
12	High Pond	Rutland	21.3 ft	16.6 µg/L	3.5 µg/L
13	Spring Lake	Rutland	21.3 ft	21.6 µg/L	2.1 µg/L
14	Old Marsh Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
15	Pine Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
16	Muddy Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
17	Johnson Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
18	Lefferts Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
19	Colton Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
20	Hinkum Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
21	Huff Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
22	Burr Pond	Rutland	-	-	-
23	Strong Swamp	Rutland	-	-	-
24	Billings Marsh	Rutland	-	-	-
25	Coggman Pond	Rutland	-	-	-

Ranked List

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