Nebraska lake · state assessment record
Beaver Dam Pond
The assessment record reported by Nebraska to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2016 reporting cycle.
- 150
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Beaver Dam Pond, a lake in Nebraska, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2016). By assessed acreage it sits in the upper quartile by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P77
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
Reading Beaver Dam Pond's filed record
Paragraphs are selected by this unit's percentiles and use matrix: different lakes lead with different dimensions. Figures are ATTAINS / portal register arithmetic, not advice.
The signature stat: assessed size
The number that most separates Beaver Dam Pond nationally is assessed size: 150 acres, larger than 77% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
IR category 3 on Beaver Dam Pond
The Integrated Report category filed for Beaver Dam Pond is 3. PlainLakes renders EPA's code without remapping it into a consumer grade.
Overall status: Not Assessed
ATTAINS overall status on this unit is “Not Assessed”. PlainLakes does not rewrite that vocabulary into a consumer score.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Nebraska carries 554 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Beaver Dam Pond without modification. See our methodology for reporting-unit limits and gauge linking rules.
The record
Designated-use assessments
Fully Supporting and Not Supporting are the state's definitive verdicts; other entries mean the use was not conclusively assessed in this cycle.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Aesthetics | Other | Not Assessed |
| Agricultural Water Supply | Other | Not Assessed |
| Aquatic Life | Aquatic-life or related | Not Assessed |
| Primary Contact Recreation | Recreation | Not Assessed |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this lake in its 2016 Integrated Report cycle but reached no assessment determination, so no causes are listed. The unit is recorded under EPA integrated-reporting Category 3: reviewed, with insufficient information to determine whether it meets water-quality standards. An undetermined waterbody is neither confirmed clean nor confirmed impaired.
Reading the record
What Beaver Dam Pond's record holds
Scale and rank
Beaver Dam Pond is one of 554 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Nebraska. It is not among the 250 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 150 assessed acres it ranks 8,894th by assessed size among the 38,628 lakes the dataset carries an area for, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once, behind 8,893 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Nebraska filed this lake in its 2016 Integrated Report cycle but reached no determination, so the record holds that filing and its use rows, but no verdict, and with nothing judged, no impairment cause to track over time. The state has not yet filed a definitive fish-consumption verdict, a definitive recreation verdict, a definitive aquatic-life verdict, and 1 other for this record; those fields populate when it reports them in a future Integrated Report cycle.
In context
Where Beaver Dam Pond sits nationally
Assessed size among U.S. lakes
Distribution of assessed acreage across ATTAINS lakes filed with an area, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once
150 Top 23% larger than 77% of 38,628 lakes
lakes the dataset carries an area for, counting a state’s repeated filings of one water once, bucketed by value
Source EPA ATTAINS · Reporting cycles 1987–2026
In both charts each bar is a band and taller bars hold more waterbodies; the dashed line and filled bar mark Beaver Dam Pond. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Nebraska context
ATTAINS carries 554 lake-type waterbodies in Nebraska, 219 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 138 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Nebraska | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Lewis and Clark Lake Not Supporting | 25,174 |
| Lake C. W. McConaughy Fully Supporting | 24,868 |
| Harlan County Reservoir Not Supporting | 12,821 |
| Calamus Reservoir Not Supporting | 5,028 |
| Swanson Reservoir Not Supporting | 4,660 |
| Sutherland Reservoir Fully Supporting | 2,954 |
Lakes near Beaver Dam Pond's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (150 acres here).
- Adams Lake · 150 acres · OK
- Beaver Lake · 150 acres · MA
- Cane Creek (Cane Creek Reservoir) · 150 acres · NC
- Cane Creek (Cane Creek Reservoir) · 150 acres · NC
What to do with this record
- Assessment verdicts are cycle-based, not real-time. For fish-consumption decisions, your state advisory program is the binding source. Consumption status guide
- Impairment listings follow the Clean Water Act 303(d) process; a listing is a regulatory finding, not a closure notice. 303(d) explained
PlainLakes renders state assessment decisions and federal gauge observations without modification. It does not issue advisories.
Assessment decisions on this page are rendered directly from state Integrated Report records in EPA's ATTAINS system; gauge figures are daily-value observations from the USGS National Water Information System, no number is typed in by an editor. Overall status, use verdicts, and causes are the state's reported decisions for assessment unit NE-WH1-L0210. Counts and percentiles are computed across all lake-type records PlainLakes ingests from ATTAINS. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-17. Primary sources: EPA ATTAINS and USGS National Water Information System.