Washington reservoir · state assessment record
Cle Elum Lake
The assessment record reported by Washington to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2022 reporting cycle.
- 191
- Assessed acres
- Lake / Reservoir / Pond
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Cle Elum Lake, a reservoir in Washington, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2022). By assessed acreage it sits in the upper quartile by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P81
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
Reading Cle Elum 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: assessed size
The number that most separates Cle Elum Lake nationally is assessed size: 190.7 acres, larger than 81% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
IR category 3 on Cle Elum Lake
The Integrated Report category filed for Cle Elum Lake 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, Washington carries 832 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Cle Elum 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.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Life - General | Aquatic-life or related | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this reservoir in its 2022 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 Cle Elum Lake's record holds
Scale and rank
Cle Elum Lake is one of 832 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Washington. It is not among the 385 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 191 assessed acres it ranks 7,502nd 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 7,501 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Washington filed this reservoir in its 2022 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.
Why no water-level record
Cle Elum Lake has no daily USGS water-level or reservoir-storage series on this page because NWIS lists a lake monitoring site named for the waterbody, but the site is not active, and PlainLakes ingests only the active inventory, so there is no series to attach. How PlainLakes links gauges.
In context
Where Cle Elum 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
191 Top 19% larger than 81% 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 Cle Elum Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Washington context
ATTAINS carries 832 lake-type waterbodies in Washington, 393 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 0 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Washington | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Bumping Lake Not Assessed | 1,354 |
| Sullivan Lake Not Supporting | 1,298 |
| Deer Lake Not Supporting | 1,146 |
| Loon Lake Not Supporting | 1,094 |
| American Lake Not Supporting | 1,092 |
| Newman Lake Not Supporting | 1,091 |
Lakes near Cle Elum Lake's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (191 acres here).
- Crystal Lake-02050107001701 · 191 acres · PA
- Lake Linganore · 191 acres · MD
- Petersburg · 191 acres · IL
- Indian · 191 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 WA47121C0F8_01_01. 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.