Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay

Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay earns a C — middle-of-the-pack water quality, with one or two parameters dragging the average down from a stronger grade. Clarity, phosphorus, and chlorophyll-a all rate similarly, so there is no obvious single lever to pull on watershed management.

Mesotrophic conditions dominate at Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay: enough nutrients for a healthy fishery, not so much that algal blooms become a chronic problem. A maximum depth of 24 ft puts Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay in the middle of Wisconsin's depth distribution. Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay covers 7,197 acres alongside partial shoreline records, large enough that conditions can vary meaningfully between bays. Within the 11 graded lakes of Sauk County, Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay sits at rank 10, near the bottom of the county list.

Zebra mussel presence at Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay means the lake's clarity numbers carry an asterisk — filtered water is not the same as nutrient-poor water. Walleye are documented at Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay, one of 7 fish species on record for the lake. A documented public access point at Lake Wisconsin Palisade Street Bay makes the lake usable for shore fishing, paddle craft, and trailered boats. The grade is based on limited monitoring — fewer than three independent measurement years contribute, so future updates may shift the letter.