Big Barbee Lake

See the boundaries of the Barbee Chain’s watershed.

See Big Barbee’s bathymetric map.

Beneath the Surface will equip you with information that will give your family, organization or agency the ability to care for Big Barbee Lake. In 2022, none of Big Barbee’s microcystin levels exceeded the threshold for human health concern.

Beneath the Surface will equip you with information that will give your family, organization or agency the ability to care for Big Barbee Lake. For instance: We discovered that Big Barbee, despite having lower water clarity than its neighbor, Big Chapman, had lower toxin levels.

This two-part study investigated lake water quality on the Barbee lakes chain before and after the installation of a public sewer system.

This is the original Beneath the Surface report, published in 2015. Learn about your lake’s health and compare it to other lakes in the county.

This project gives an overall assessment both the Barbee and Chapman lake chains. It establishes baseline conditions for the Barbee Chain before installation of a public sewer system.

This paper synthesizes three years of blue-green algae research (2010-13) conducted by the Lilly Center. We have continued to study the algae and its toxin in-depth.

When combined with additional property taxes generated due to lake presence, the total economic impact of Kosciusko County lakes is more than $313,383,000 annually.

This document provides a list of trusted, historical resources. It mentions this lake.

In 2007, the Lilly Center published this baseline study which compares 30 lakes throughout Kosciusko County.