Texas reservoir · state assessment record
Gordon Lake
The assessment record reported by Texas to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2012 reporting cycle.
- 33
- Assessed acres
- Reservoir
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Gordon Lake, a reservoir in Texas, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2012). By assessed acreage it sits below the national median by assessed acreage (38,628 lakes).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P45
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
Gordon Lake against the ATTAINS 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
Assessed size is not the extreme here: 33.1 acres sits near the middle of the 38,628 units with an area filed (percentile 45).
IR category 3 on Gordon Lake
The Integrated Report category filed for Gordon 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, Texas carries 489 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Gordon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fish Consumption Use | Fish-consumption or fishery | Not Assessed |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this reservoir in its 2012 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 Gordon Lake's record holds
Scale and rank
Gordon Lake is one of 489 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Texas. It is not among the 323 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 33 assessed acres it ranks 21,388th 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 21,387 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Texas filed this reservoir in its 2012 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.
Reported trophic class
Texas carried the trophic field for this assessment unit and filed it as unclassified, which records that no class was determined rather than that the water is unenriched. What the trophic scale measures.
In context
Where Gordon 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
33 Top 55% larger than 45% 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 Gordon Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Texas context
ATTAINS carries 489 lake-type waterbodies in Texas, 125 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 331 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Texas | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Lake Texoma Fully Supporting | 49,400 |
| Toledo Bend Reservoir Not Supporting | 41,046 |
| International Falcon Reservoir Fully Supporting | 36,817 |
| Sam Rayburn Reservoir Not Supporting | 28,238 |
| International Amistad Reservoir Fully Supporting | 21,328 |
| Lake Livingston Not Supporting | 18,238 |
Lakes near Gordon Lake's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (33 acres here).
- Grignon Lake · 33 acres · WI
- Yellowjacket Lake · 33 acres · OR
- <Null> · 33 acres · OR
- Oliverian Brook Pond · 33 acres · NH
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 TX-0214D_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.