I was talking to Jennifer Filbert at the Wisconsin DNR the other day. Jennifer manages the data for the state-wide citizen's lake monitoring group. They're a network of individuals, usually lake-front property owners who monitor and regularly take a variety of water samples from lakes all across Wisconsin. The data they compile helps to give us a look at how our lakes are doing. One of the many tasks lake monitors perform is to take regular sechi disc readings. This is a universal way of assessing and comparing water clarity. I was interested to know which Wisconsin inland lakes were the clearest. Jennifer sent me a spreadsheet of some really comprehensive data and I thought it would be interesting to pass this along. Here are the lakes that recorded the highest average water clarity in 2014. In short-here are Wisconsin's clearest inland lakes and their average water clarity in 2014:
1) Pine Lake, Waukesha Co. 31 feet
2) Black Oak Lake, Vilas Co. 30 feet
3) Hart Lake, Bayfield Co. 30 feet
4) Whitefish Lake, Douglas Co. 30 feet
5) Bass Lake, Washburn Co. 30 feet
6) Des Moines Lake, Burnett Co. 27 feet
7) Lake Owen, Bayfield Co. 25 feet
8) Maiden Lake, Oconto Co. 25 feet
9) Lake Millicent, Bayfield Co. 25 feet
10) Sugar Camp Lake, Oneida Co. 24 feet
To see the lake list from 2013, click here. For the 2012 list of clear lakes, click here.
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