Colorado reservoir · state assessment record
Harvey Lake.
Assessment decisions reported by Colorado to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2019 reporting cycle.
- 5.80
- Assessed acres
- Lake / Reservoir / Pond
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Harvey Lake., a reservoir in Colorado, is assessed as not supporting one or more designated uses, with one listed impairment cause in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2019). By assessed acreage it sits among the smaller assessed lakes nationally (38,628 lakes with a filed area); its impairment list is among the longest nationally (one listed cause vs 23,610 assessed lakes). Aquatic life is assessed as not supporting.
- Not Supporting
- overall status
- P12
- Assessed size nationally
- P20
- 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.
Where Harvey Lake. stands in 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
What stands out first is how small the assessed unit is: 5.8 acres, smaller than 88% of the 38,628 lake-type units carrying an area.
No ruled-on use clears the bar
On the uses this filer ruled on, aquatic life, every determination is Not Supporting. That is a use-by-use reading of the filed record, not a single overall lake grade.
Harvey Lake.: Category 5, TMDL still owed
Category 5 is the Integrated Report band where a TMDL (or equivalent) is still expected for Harvey Lake.. 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 Harvey Lake. is Not Supporting. That tile summarizes the assessment unit; the designated-use rows and cause list are the evidence behind it.
Typical cause-list length
1 listed cause is a middle-tercile list length among assessed lake-type units. Look to IR category and use outcomes for the distinctive reading.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Colorado carries 344 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Harvey 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. Colorado filed 2018 as the year this waterbody was last monitored.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | Other | Fully Supporting |
| Aquatic Life Warm Water-Class 2 | Aquatic-life or related | Not Supporting |
| Recreation | Recreation | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
Causes the state listed as impairing designated uses of this reservoir, with the cycle each was first listed and the Clean Water Act action recorded against it.
| Cause | Affected uses | First listed | Cleanup standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Total Recoverable | Aquatic Life Warm Water-Class 2 | 2020 | TMDL priority: Medium |
Reading the record
Where Harvey Lake. sits among peers
4 of 11 Colorado lakes assessed this deeply also came out mixed
Colorado ruled definitively on 2 designated uses at Harvey Lake. and found 1 of 2 not supported. The dataset shows 11 Colorado lakes judged to that same depth.
Colorado's assessed lakes are most often judged on 4 uses; this one was judged on 2.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All supported | 1 | 7 | 22 | 44 | 0 |
| Mixed | Not possible | 4 (this record) | 29 | 55 | 0 |
| None supported | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ringed cell: Harvey Lake.. Source: EPA ATTAINS, Reporting cycles 1987–2026.
Scale and rank
Harvey Lake. is one of 344 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Colorado, and one of 122 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 5.80 assessed acres it ranks 34,034th 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 34,033 lakes with a larger one.
Still unfiled
The state has not yet filed a definitive fish-consumption verdict and a definitive recreation verdict for this record; those fields populate when it reports them in a future Integrated Report cycle.
In context
Where Harvey 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
6 Top 88% larger than 12% 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
1 Longer than most more listed causes than 49% 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 Harvey Lake.. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Colorado context
ATTAINS carries 344 lake-type waterbodies in Colorado, 89 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 74 fully supporting. Among the 122 indexed units there, Harvey Lake. ranks 85th by listed-cause count (one listed cause) and 117th by assessed size among the 122 with an area filed; it sits in the not-supporting set (89 statewide) . Its listed causes (Iron Total Recoverable) sit outside Colorado's top-five list, which is led by Arsenic.
| Other large assessed lakes in Colorado | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| John Martin Reservoir. Not Supporting | 17,147 |
| Blue Mesa Reservoir Fully Supporting | 8,957 |
| Lake Granby. Not Supporting | 7,036 |
| Two Buttes Reservoir, Two Buttes Pond, Hasty Lake, Holbrook Reservoir, Burchfield Lake, Nee-Skah (Queens) Reservoir, Neeso Pah Reservoir, Nee Noshe Reservoir. Fully Supporting | 6,123 |
| Lake and reserviors tributary to the South Platte River Not Assessed | 5,770 |
| Lake Meredith. Not Supporting | 5,531 |
Peers near Harvey Lake.'s size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (5.80 acres here).
- Lower Mountain Pond · 5.80 acres · NH
- Columbus Park Lag. · 5.80 acres · IL
- Deer Pond · 5.80 acres · NY
- Larenim Lake Dam No. 26 · 5.80 acres · WV
Similar cause load
Nearest listed-cause counts (1 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.
- Aaron · 1 causes · MN
- Aaron River Reservoir · 1 causes · MA
- Abbotts Creek (including Lexington-Thomasville Water Supply Reservoir at normal reservoir elevation, Tom-A-Lex Lake) · 1 causes · NC
- Abeniki Lake · 1 causes · 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 COSPUS23_E. 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.