Huey Lake
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia12 haView mapDirections
NSECC publishes the water-quality measurements for Huey Lake. Here is what has been measured.
- Limited data
Huey Lake in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia has water-quality measurements published by NSECC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 3.4 m visibility. Phosphorus: 3 µg/L. Surface area: 29.7 acres.
Huey Lake is a 30-acre lake in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
Source: Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change — not the EPA Water Quality Portal, last sampled 1983-08-05. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
What Huey Lake is good for
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- Clear water11.2 ft of visibility
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Huey Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Huey Lake
These are the measurements NSECC publishes for Huey Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
Good clarity, visible to about 11.2 ft. Phosphorus 3 µg/L. TSI 31.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 3.4m | Measured, not scored How deep a black-and-white disk stays visible from the surface. Higher is clearer. |
| Total phosphorus | 3µg/L | Measured, not scored The nutrient that most limits algae growth in freshwater. More phosphorus, more algae potential. |
| Chlorophyll-a (algae) | No reading The green pigment in algae — a direct measure of how much algae is in the water. | |
| Trophic state (TSI)Carlson's 0–100 index of how much algae a lake can support, from clarity, phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. | 31 | Oligotrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
Low nutrients, clear water. No reading is a swimming clearance.
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Lake Details
Average depth
Not documented
Surface area
12 ha
The available depth estimate for Huey Lake is shallower than its measured water clarity, which cannot be right, so no depth is shown.
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Where is Huey Lake?
- Huey Lake is a lake in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Its water-quality measurements are published by NSECC and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Huey Lake?
- Huey Lake in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia has water-quality measurements published by NSECC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 3.4 m visibility. Phosphorus: 3 µg/L. Surface area: 29.7 acres.
Is Huey Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Huey Lake?
- The available depth estimate for Huey Lake is shallower than its measured water clarity, which cannot be right, so no depth is shown. The lake covers 29.7 acres.
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Where this data comes from
2 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 1983. Retrieved from Nova Scotia open data (not the EPA Water Quality Portal) on 2026-08-16.
Collected and reported by
- Lands and Forests, NSDOE
Lands and Forests, NSDOE1 sample · 1983
Monitoring station identifiers (1)
972
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