Idaho lake · state assessment record
Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters
The assessment record reported by Idaho to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2020 reporting cycle.
- 287
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters, a lake in Idaho, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2020). By assessed acreage it sits in the upper quartile by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P86
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
How Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters reads against the filed register
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 Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters nationally is assessed size: 286.6 acres, larger than 86% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
IR category 3 on Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters
The Integrated Report category filed for Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters 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, Idaho carries 630 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aesthetic | Other | Not Assessed |
| Agricultural Water Supply | Other | Not Assessed |
| Cold Water Aquatic Life | Aquatic-life or related | Not Assessed |
| Domestic Water Supply | Drinking-water supply designation | Not Assessed |
| Industrial Water Supply | Other | Not Assessed |
| Salmonid Spawning | Aquatic-life or related | Not Assessed |
| Wildlife Habitat | Other | Not Assessed |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this lake in its 2020 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 Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters's record holds
Scale and rank
Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters is one of 630 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Idaho. It is not among the 186 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 287 assessed acres it ranks 5,553rd 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 5,552 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Idaho filed this lake in its 2020 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 Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters 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
287 Top 14% larger than 86% 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 Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Idaho context
ATTAINS carries 630 lake-type waterbodies in Idaho, 51 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 198 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Idaho | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Pend Oreille Lake Not Supporting | 80,829 |
| Bear Lake Not Assessed | 34,454 |
| American Falls Reservoir (Snake River) Not Supporting | 31,724 |
| Cascade Reservoir Not Supporting | 25,040 |
| American Falls Reservoir (Snake River) Tribal Waters Not Assessed | 23,785 |
| Grays Lake Not Assessed | 23,678 |
Lakes near Chesterfield Reservoir Tribal Waters's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (287 acres here).
- Townline Lake · 287 acres · MI
- Wolverine Lake · 287 acres · MI
- Dexter Lake · 287 acres · WI
- Three Island · 287 acres · MN
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 ID17040208SK019L_0LT. 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.