Is wooster lake water quality good for swimming?

Answer 1

Though private Wooster Lake, IL is on average 16.4 feet deep- the 4th deepest on average in Lake County - the lake is being heavily polluted with phosphorous at 3 significant source points, the worst being the south end of the lake where upstream water carries the phosphorous from lawns and a handful of nurseries, ultimately dumping the phosphorous into Wooster. The overabundance of algae as well as other invasive plants consuming Wooster is a direct biproduct of this polluting phosphorous.

Swimming in algae, weed-constricted waters is never good quality to swim in.

Swimming in Wooster should only be done in areas deep enough where weeds don't surface or in areas managed so as to control those invasive, life-choking plants.