Botetourt County Lake Quality

Botetourt County holds 1 monitored lake. With a sample that small the county-level summary describes those specific waters, not necessarily every water body in the county. Every one of those lake carries an A–F grade, so the county-level summary covers the full set rather than a monitored subset. The county's average grade is A — among the cleanest in Virginia. 1 lakes pull an A on their own, and almost none fall into the D or F brackets.

Most of the county's monitored lakes are shallow — under 50 feet — which means wind keeps the water column mixed all summer and sediment-bound phosphorus releases back into the surface layer whenever the bottom is disturbed. Carvins Cove Reservoir (A) is the cleanest in the county.