Utah lake · state assessment record
Deer Creek Reservoir
Assessment decisions reported by Utah to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2026 reporting cycle.
- 2,562
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Deer Creek Reservoir, a lake in Utah, is assessed as not supporting one or more designated uses, with 3 listed impairment causes in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2026). By assessed acreage it sits among the largest 5% by assessed acreage nationally (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.
- Not Supporting
- overall status
- P97
- 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.
How Deer Creek Reservoir 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 Deer Creek Reservoir nationally is assessed size: 2,562 acres, larger than 97% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
Every ruled-on use is not supporting
On the uses this filer ruled on, recreation, aquatic life, every determination is Not Supporting. That is a use-by-use reading of the filed record, not a single overall lake grade.
Longer than most cause lists
3 listed causes puts this unit above 90% of assessed lake-type records by list length. Treat that as a coding-and-sampling signal: states that split pollutants finely mint longer lists without proving worse water.
Deer Creek Reservoir: Category 5, TMDL still owed
Category 5 is the Integrated Report band where a TMDL (or equivalent) is still expected for Deer Creek Reservoir. Read the listed causes and any cleanup actions filed beside them before treating the overall status tile as a finished restoration story.
Overall status: not supporting
The filer's overall status for Deer Creek Reservoir 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, Utah carries 143 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Deer Creek Reservoir 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural | Other | Fully Supporting |
| Aquatic Wildlife (Cold Water) | Aquatic-life or related | Not Supporting |
| Domestic Source | Drinking-water supply designation | Fully Supporting |
| Recreation and Aesthetics (Frequent Primary Contact) | Recreation | Not Supporting |
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 | Aquatic Wildlife (Cold Water) | 1998 | TMDL approved |
| Temperature | Aquatic Wildlife (Cold Water) | 2006 | TMDL priority: High |
| Harmful Algal Blooms | Recreation and Aesthetics (Frequent Primary Contact) | 2024 | TMDL priority: High |
Probable sources
Utah listed the source of the impairment as unknown. That is the state's own filed value, not a gap in this record: the cause has been identified, the origin has not.
Reading the record
Cleanup queue for Deer Creek Reservoir
2 listed causes ranked High in the TMDL queue, still without a plan
Utah ranked 2 listed causes high in its TMDL development queue, and no cleanup plan is on file for those listings yet. That queue rank is the state's own scheduling signal, not an EPA national rule.
A High ranking names a position in the state's plan-writing queue; it is not a measure of how impaired the water is. How listing and cleanup work.
Scale and rank
Deer Creek Reservoir is one of 143 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Utah, and one of 84 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 2,562 assessed acres it ranks 1,142nd 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 1,141 lakes with a larger one.
Awaiting a filing
The state has not yet filed a definitive fish-consumption verdict for this record; that field populates when it reports it in a future Integrated Report cycle.
Why no water-level record
Deer Creek Reservoir 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 Deer Creek Reservoir 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
2,562 Top 3% larger than 97% 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 Deer Creek Reservoir. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Utah context
ATTAINS carries 143 lake-type waterbodies in Utah, 77 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 60 fully supporting. Among the 84 indexed units there, Deer Creek Reservoir ranks 19th by listed-cause count (3 listed causes) and 13th by assessed size among the 84 with an area filed; it sits in the not-supporting set (77 statewide) . Its listed causes include Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, and Harmful Algal Blooms, which also appear among Utah's most-filed impairment causes (led by pH).
| Other large assessed lakes in Utah | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Gilbert Bay Fully Supporting | 559,424 |
| Gunnison Bay Not Assessed | 384,588 |
| Lake Powell Fully Supporting | 149,885 |
| Utah Lake other than Provo Bay Not Supporting | 87,984 |
| Farmington Bay Not Assessed | 77,243 |
| Bear River Bay Not Assessed | 71,681 |
Peers near Deer Creek Reservoir's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (2,562 acres here).
- Upper Chateaugay Lake · 2,564 acres · NY
- Grand Bayou Reservoir-Located within subsegment LA100709_00. This unit is added for advisory tracking purposes only and is not a subsegment as defined by LAC 33:IX.1123.A. et seq. No other assessment is made for this water body. · 2,558 acres · LA
- Marshall Co. · 2,557 acres · IL
- Bridgeport Reservoir · 2,557 acres · CA
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
- 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 UT-L-16020203-001_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.