Texas reservoir · state assessment record

Lake Nasworthy (293 acres)

Assessment decisions reported by Texas to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2024 reporting cycle.

293
Assessed acres
Reservoir
Water type
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This waterbody in one line

Lake Nasworthy, a reservoir in Texas, is assessed as fully supporting its designated uses, with no impairment causes listed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2024). By assessed acreage it sits in the upper quartile by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes); its impairment list is shorter than on half of assessed lakes (0 listed causes). Aquatic life is assessed as fully supporting.

Fully Supporting
overall status
P86
Assessed size nationally
P51
Shorter cause list
Fully Supporting
aquatic life

Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.

A+
Water Quality Standing
98/100
Lake Nasworthy

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.

RecreationA+
Meeting criteria
Swimming, boating, and other primary/secondary contact recreation
Drinking WaterA+
Meeting criteria
Suitability as a public drinking-water source
Aquatic LifeA+
Meeting criteria
Support for fish, invertebrates, and other aquatic organisms
Fish ConsumptionN/A
Not assessed
Safety of eating fish caught in this water
Impairment BurdenA+
0 causes
Filed pollutant/stressor causes on this record
Assessment CurrencyA+
2024
Reporting cycle this record’s verdicts were last decided in

Lake Nasworthy 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: cause-list length

The standout filed fact is a short cause list: 0 causes, shorter than 51% of assessed lake-type units. A short list can mean a focused impairment, or a shallow assessment.

Large assessed unit

At 293.3 acres, Lake Nasworthy clears the upper tercile of assessed lake-type units with an area on file (5,447 still larger). Size comparisons use the portal's deduplicated lake ranking population, not raw ATTAINS row counts.

All ruled-on uses pass

The filed use determinations for recreation, aquatic life are all Fully Supporting. Where an overall IR category still flags the unit, look at the cause list and report standing rather than treating the use row as empty.

Small within Texas

State size rank 282 of 323 puts Lake Nasworthy toward the small end of Texas's indexed lake-type units with an area.

IR category in the supporting band

EPA's Integrated Report category for Lake Nasworthy is 1. In ATTAINS that band means the assessed uses are supporting (or supporting with other waters in the unit), so the narrative weight shifts to how deep the assessment went and whether monitoring is current, not to a restoration plan.

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 Lake Nasworthy without modification. See our methodology for reporting-unit limits and gauge linking rules.

Reporting cycle
2024
Texas Integrated Report
Listing category
Category 1
Uses with verdicts
4
Definitive use assessments
Sources retrieved
2026-08-17
Portal-wide ATTAINS + NWIS pull

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 Use Aquatic-life or related Fully Supporting
Domestic Water Supply - Public Water Supply Drinking-water supply designation Fully Supporting
General Use Other Fully Supporting
Recreation Use Recreation Fully Supporting

The record

Listed impairment causes

The state's reported assessment lists no impairment causes for this reservoir.

Reading the record

Lake Nasworthy: Category 1 reading

1 Category 1: all designated uses supported

Texas filed this assessment unit as Category 1: every designated use assessed here was reported as supported. That is the filer's Integrated Report classification, not a PlainLakes score.

How these categories work.

Scale and rank

Lake Nasworthy is one of 489 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Texas, and one of 323 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 293 assessed acres it ranks 5,448th 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 5,447 lakes with a larger one.

What this record holds

Texas completed an assessment here and listed no impairment cause, so the record holds a verdict and its supporting use rows but no pollutant to track over time. 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.

In context

Where Lake Nasworthy 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

293 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

Listed causes vs waterbodies carrying a verdict

How many impairment causes U.S. waterbodies with a reported verdict carry

0 Among the shortest cause lists fewer listed causes than 51% 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 Lake Nasworthy. 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. Among the 323 indexed units there, Lake Nasworthy ranks 299th by listed-cause count (no listed causes) and 282nd by assessed size among the 323 with an area filed; it is one of the 331 fully-supporting indexed records in the state .

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

Peers near Lake Nasworthy's size or cause load

Similar assessed acres

Nearest filed extents (293 acres here).

Similar cause load

Nearest listed-cause counts (0 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.

How peers are picked

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-1422_02. 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.