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Obabika Lake

Nipissing District, OntarioView mapDirections

Ontario MECP publishes the water-quality measurements for Obabika Lake. Here is what has been measured.

Clarity
5.1 m
Clearer than most
Secchi · sampled 2019
Max depth
~23.5 m est.
GLOBathy model
  • 77 ft max depth
  • Limited data

Obabika Lake in Nipissing District, Ontario has water-quality measurements published by Ontario MECP, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 5.1 m visibility.

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Obabika Lake is a lake in Nipissing District County, Ontario with an estimated average depth of about 77 feet.

Source: Ontario open-data programmes (Lake Partner Program and Broad-scale Monitoring) — not the EPA Water Quality Portal, last sampled 2019-05-29. Methodology: how these readings are compared.

What Obabika Lake is good for

From access and monitoring records, not editorial picks.

  • Clear water16.7 ft of visibility

Swimming conditions

No reading

Limited data

Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.

Whether Obabika Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.

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Water quality measurements for Obabika Lake

These are the measurements Ontario MECP publishes for Obabika Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.

Crystal clear, you can see 16.7 ft down. TSI 37.

Water quality readings
MeasureReadingWhere it sits
Water clarity (Secchi depth)5.1mMeasured, not scored

How deep a black-and-white disk stays visible from the surface. Higher is clearer.

Total phosphorusNo reading

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.37Oligotrophic
OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic

Low nutrients, clear water. No reading is a swimming clearance.

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Lake Details

Max depth

~23.5 m est.

Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. Ontario has not published bathymetry for Obabika Lake.

Lake Size & Watershed

Watershed (drainage) area

77 sq mi

HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS

Surface area

8,001 acres

HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS

Shoreline

61.8 mi

HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS

Elevation

932 ft

Size, shoreline, and watershed area from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS). Mean depth here is modelled, not surveyed — HydroLAKES v1.0 estimates lake depth from surrounding terrain rather than from soundings. Treat it as an approximation, and prefer a state bathymetric survey where one exists.

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Where is Obabika Lake?

Obabika Lake is a lake in Nipissing District, Ontario. Its water-quality measurements are published by Ontario MECP and shown on this page as reported.

What is the water quality of Obabika Lake?

Obabika Lake in Nipissing District, Ontario has water-quality measurements published by Ontario MECP, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 5.1 m visibility.

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Is Obabika Lake safe to swim in?

Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.

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How deep is Obabika Lake?

No published bathymetric survey covers Obabika Lake, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 77 feet, but that is a modelled estimate derived from surrounding terrain rather than a measurement on the water, so treat it as approximate.

Where this data comes from

Measurements for Obabika Lake come from Ontario open-data programmes (Lake Partner Program and Broad-scale Monitoring), not the EPA Water Quality Portal. Per-sample source details are not recorded for this lake. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. See data sources.

Other records on this page

Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)