Scientists explore deterioration of cleanest lakes in Vermont

A view from the fishing access to one of the hundreds of freshwater lakes scattered throughout Vermont. Photo by Ellen Bartlett/VTDigger
As the debate goes on over what to do about the state’s water quality crisis, scientists and others whose job it is to study the lakes themselves are reporting some curious findings: the water quality in Vermont’s most polluted lakes is actually improving, a little, but the quality of its cleanest lakes is deteriorating, and they’re not entire