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Cleaner Lakes Than Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm

5 higher-graded lakes within 30 miles, ranked by grade improvement and proximity.

Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm carries a Grade D (Poor) water quality score. Within 30 miles, 5 lakes hold a higher grade. Whitney Lake (Hill County, Grade B, 16.1 mi away) is the closest meaningful upgrade.

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B

Whitney Lake

Hill County, Texas · 16.1 mi from Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm
  • +Two grade letters higher (D → B)
  • ++3.5 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (20 vs 80 µg/L)
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C

Lake Whitney

Bosque County, Texas · 7.6 mi from Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm
  • +Higher grade (D → C)
  • ++1.8 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (40 vs 80 µg/L)
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D

Lake Whitney

Bosque County, Texas · 2.9 mi from Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm
  • +Higher overall water quality score
  • +Lower phosphorus (60 vs 80 µg/L)
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D

Pat Cleburne Reservoir

Johnson County, Texas · 14.2 mi from Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm
  • +Higher overall water quality score
  • ++1.1 ft water clarity
  • +Lower phosphorus (50 vs 80 µg/L)

Reading the cohort

5 cleaner lakes sit within 30 miles of Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm in the EPA water-quality dataset. With that many higher-grade neighbors close by, Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm's Grade D reflects 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 Texas weekend.

The nearest cleaner alternative — Whitney Lake in Hill County — sits 16.1 miles from Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm, putting it firmly in "destination trip" rather than "neighborhood swap" range. The water-quality gap has to be the deciding factor; for a casual outing, Lake Whitney Nolands River Arm is the practical choice and the cleaner options are reserved for purpose-specific visits.

The EPA water-quality grading combines clarity (Secchi depth), phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a measurements from state environmental sampling. A higher letter grade reflects measurably cleaner water on those indicators, not subjective beauty or access quality — a Grade A lake might have worse boat-launch facilities or shoreline access than a Grade C neighbor, so the ranking is one input alongside the rest of trip planning. See the methodology page for the full grading formula.

How this list is built

Every lake on LakeQuality has a calculated grade from EPA Water Quality Portal samples — secchi depth, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a measured against Metropolitan Council thresholds. To suggest cleaner alternatives, we filter lakes within 30 miles to those with a strictly higher numeric score, then rank by grade improvement with a small proximity tiebreak. Cross-state and limited-data lakes are excluded so the list stays locally relevant.

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