Oklahoma lake · state assessment record
Cedar Lake
Assessment decisions reported by Oklahoma to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2024 reporting cycle.
- 78
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
- Eutrophic
- Reported trophic class
This waterbody in one line
Cedar Lake, a lake in Oklahoma, is assessed as not supporting one or more designated uses, with 3 listed impairment causes in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2024). By assessed acreage it sits above the national median by assessed acreage (38,628 lakes); its impairment list is among the longest nationally (3 listed causes vs 23,610 assessed lakes). Aquatic life is assessed as not supporting. Fish consumption is assessed as not supporting.
- Not Supporting
- overall status
- P65
- Assessed size nationally
- P5
- Shorter cause list
- Not Supporting
- aquatic life
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
A composite of this record's EPA ATTAINS designated-use verdicts, filed impairment count, and assessment currency, weighted and benchmarked against the national corpus of assessed active waterbodies. This is a water-quality standing, not a human-recreation or property-value judgment, and dimensions with no filed verdict drop out rather than count against the score.
Reading Cedar Lake'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: cause-list length
The standout filed fact is cause-list length: 3 listed impairment causes, a longer list than 90% of assessed lake-type units (n=23,610). List length tracks how states sample and code, not a severity score.
A split ruling across uses
This record splits: Not Supporting on fish consumption, aquatic life, Fully Supporting on recreation. The divergence is inside the designated-use matrix, not a single all-or-nothing label.
Cedar Lake: Category 5, TMDL still owed
Category 5 is the Integrated Report band where a TMDL (or equivalent) is still expected for Cedar Lake. Read the listed causes and any cleanup actions filed beside them before treating the overall status tile as a finished restoration story.
Small within Oklahoma
State size rank 159 of 170 puts Cedar Lake toward the small end of Oklahoma's indexed lake-type units with an area.
Overall status: not supporting
The filer's overall status for Cedar Lake is Not Supporting. That tile summarizes the assessment unit; the designated-use rows and cause list are the evidence behind it.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Oklahoma carries 456 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Cedar Lake 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. The latest monitoring Oklahoma filed against this record runs through 2022. Oklahoma filed its own confidence on the 5 definitive verdicts it rated: Good and Excellent. That rating is the filer's, in EPA's own field, and EPA publishes no definition of the four words it offers.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Aesthetic | Other | Fully Supporting Filer confidence: Good |
| Agriculture | Other | Fully Supporting Filer confidence: Good |
| Fish Consumption | Fish-consumption or fishery | Not Supporting Filer confidence: Excellent |
| Fish and Wildlife Propagation-Warm Water Aquatic Community Subcategory | Aquatic-life or related | Not Supporting Filer confidence: Good |
| Primary Body Contact Recreation | Recreation | Fully Supporting Filer confidence: Good |
The record
Listed impairment causes
Causes the state listed as impairing designated uses of this lake, with the cycle each was first listed and the Clean Water Act action recorded against it.
| Cause | Affected uses | First listed | Cleanup standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dissolved Oxygen | Fish and Wildlife Propagation-Warm Water Aquatic Community Subcategory | 2004 | None reported |
| pH | Fish and Wildlife Propagation-Warm Water Aquatic Community Subcategory | 2004 | None reported |
| Mercury | Fish Consumption | 2016 | None reported |
Probable sources named by the state
Each source below is listed under the cause the state filed it against, and carries the word the state filed with it — confirmed, or suspected.
- Dissolved Oxygen
- Wildlife Other Than Waterfowl (suspected) Grazing in Riparian or Shoreline Zones (suspected) On-Site Treatment Systems (Septic Systems and Similar Decentralized Systems) (suspected) Wastes From Pets (suspected) Rangeland Grazing (suspected)
Oklahoma also recorded the source of at least one listing here as unknown, including for Dissolved Oxygen, pH, and Mercury.
Reading the record
Where Cedar Lake sits among peers
91% of Oklahoma's lakes assessed this deeply also came out mixed (the standard result at this depth, not a distinction)
Oklahoma ruled definitively on 5 designated uses at Cedar Lake and found 2 of 5 not supported. The dataset shows 101 Oklahoma lakes judged to that same depth.
Oklahoma's assessed lakes are most often judged on 5 or more uses, as this one was.
Computed share from EPA ATTAINS filed records, not an official EPA rating or safety grade.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All supported | 13 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Mixed | Not possible | 6 | 12 | 30 | 92 (this record) |
| None supported | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ringed cell: Cedar Lake. Source: EPA ATTAINS, Reporting cycles 1987–2026.
Scale and rank
Cedar Lake is one of 456 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Oklahoma, and one of 173 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 78 assessed acres it ranks 13,719th 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 13,718 lakes with a larger one.
Reported trophic class
Eutrophic is the trophic class the filing agency reported to EPA ATTAINS for this assessment unit. It describes nutrient enrichment, not whether the water is safe, and it is not a PlainLakes inference. What the trophic scale measures.
In context
Where Cedar Lake 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
78 Top 35% larger than 65% 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
Listed causes vs waterbodies carrying a verdict
How many impairment causes U.S. waterbodies with a reported verdict carry
3 Longer than most more listed causes than 90% of 23,610 waterbodies carrying a verdict
named waterbodies carrying a verdict, 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 Cedar Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Oklahoma context
ATTAINS carries 456 lake-type waterbodies in Oklahoma, 153 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 45 fully supporting. Among the 173 indexed units there, Cedar Lake ranks 36th by listed-cause count (3 listed causes) and 159th by assessed size among the 170 with an area filed; it sits in the not-supporting set (153 statewide) . Its listed causes include Dissolved Oxygen, pH, and Mercury, which also appear among Oklahoma's most-filed impairment causes (led by Mercury).
| Other large assessed lakes in Oklahoma | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Grand Lake Site 12 Not Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 13 Not Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 14 Fully Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 15 Fully Supporting | 46,500 |
| Robert S. Kerr Lake Not Supporting | 43,380 |
| Texoma Lake, Red River Arm, Lower Not Supporting | 31,081 |
Peers near Cedar Lake's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (78 acres here).
- Beaver · 78 acres · MN
- Benedict Lake · 78 acres · WI
- Cozad Lake (South Pine WMA) · 78 acres · NE
- George, Lake (Hammond) · 78 acres · IN
Similar cause load
Nearest listed-cause counts (3 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.
- 67th St. Beach · 3 causes · IL
- Abiquiu Reservoir · 3 causes · NM
- Absecon Creek (AC Reserviors) (gage to SB) · 3 causes · NJ
- Absecon Creek (below gage) · 3 causes · NJ
What to do with this record
- The fish-consumption use is assessed as not supporting. Before eating fish from this lake, check your state fish-advisory program for species-specific meal limits. 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 OK220100020060_00. 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.