Orange-Downey Lake
Orange County, FloridaView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from Florida DEP for this lake.
- Limited data
Orange-Downey Lake in Orange County, Florida has water-quality measurements published by Florida DEP, shown here as reported.
Orange-Downey Lake is a lake in Orange County, Florida. Overall water quality is declining over recent sampling years.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, FDEP, last sampled 2021-05-30. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Orange-Downey Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Orange-Downey Lake
These are the measurements Florida DEP publishes for Orange-Downey Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
No clarity data.
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Fishing Orange-Downey Lake
Water Quality Trend: Worsening
Based on 5 years of monitoring (2020–2024).
Water clarity
Worsening5 years
Phosphorus
Worsening+1.55 µg/L/yr5 years
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Frequently asked questions about Orange-Downey Lake
Where is Orange-Downey Lake?
- Orange-Downey Lake is a lake in Orange County, Florida. Its water-quality measurements are published by Florida DEP and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Orange-Downey Lake?
- Orange-Downey Lake in Orange County, Florida has water-quality measurements published by Florida DEP, shown here as reported.
Is Orange-Downey Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Orange-Downey Lake is about 33 miles from Canaveral National Seashore. Crowds there swing hard by season, so the month you pick changes both how busy the park is and what lodging costs.
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Where this data comes from
24 measurements from 3 monitoring stations, 2021. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- FLORIDA LAKEWATCH
21FLKWAT_WQX24 samples · 2021
Monitoring station identifiers (3)
EPA condition classes from the National Lakes Assessment (EPA 841-R-24-006, Table 6-3), applied by ecoregion. See where the data comes from and data sources.