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Cleaner Lakes Than Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte

4 lakes with lower nutrient and algae readings within 30 miles, ranked by the size of the improvement and by proximity.

Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte carries nutrient and algae readings on record. Within 30 miles, 4 lakes read lower. Briery Creek Lake Upper End of Lake Prin (Prince Edward County, 8.6 mi away) is the closest meaningful upgrade.

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Briery Creek Lake Sta

Prince Edward County, Virginia · 10.4 mi from Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte
  • ++2 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (20 vs 40 µg/L)
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Prince Edward Lake-Near Dam

Prince Edward County, Virginia · 14.9 mi from Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte
  • +Lower phosphorus (20 vs 40 µg/L)

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Reading the cohort

4 cleaner lakes sit within 30 miles of Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte in the EPA water-quality dataset. With that many lower-nutrient neighbors close by, Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte's readings reflect something specific to the lake itself, not a regional water-quality ceiling. The neighbor list below isn't a small set of marginal upgrades; it's a real cohort of meaningfully cleaner choices for the same Virginia weekend.

Briery Creek Lake Upper End of Lake Prin (Prince Edward County) is the closest cleaner option at 8.6 miles from Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte: close enough to be a genuine substitute for most users, far enough that it isn't the same neighborhood lake. Worth the trip if water quality is the primary driver; less obvious if Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte is on the way to other plans.

Each lake's nutrient and algae readings — total phosphorus, total nitrogen, chlorophyll-a, and turbidity — are shown beside the EPA National Lakes Assessment 2022 condition class for that lake's own ecoregion, so a reading is compared against the lakes it would naturally resemble. LakeQuality publishes no letter grade. Lower readings mean measurably less nutrient and algae in the water, not better scenery or access: the lake with the clearest, lowest-nutrient water can have worse boat-launch facilities or shoreline access than a neighbor, so the comparison is one input alongside the rest of trip planning. How the readings are classified is on our methodology page.

How this list is built

Sampled lakes on LakeQuality carry readings from EPA Water Quality Portal samples — nutrients and algae measured against EPA National Lakes Assessment ecoregion classes. Secchi is shown, not scored. To suggest cleaner alternatives, we filter lakes within 30 miles to those with strictly lower nutrient and algae readings, then rank by the size of the improvement with a small proximity tiebreak. Cross-state and limited-data lakes are excluded so the list stays locally relevant.

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