Minnesota lake · tribal assessment record
Leslin Lake
Part of the Upper/Lower Red Lake Watershed in Beltrami County on the Red Lake Reservation. The assessment record reported by Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2022 reporting cycle.
- 11
- Assessed acres
- Lake
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Leslin Lake, a lake in Minnesota, was reported but not assessed in the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2022). By assessed acreage it sits among the smaller assessed lakes nationally (38,628 lakes with a filed area).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P21
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
Where Leslin 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: 11.3 acres, smaller than 79% of the 38,628 lake-type units carrying an area.
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, Minnesota carries 13,176 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Leslin 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 Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians's definitive verdicts; other entries mean the use was not conclusively assessed in this cycle.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| General | Other | Insufficient Information |
| Secondary Contact | Recreation | Insufficient Information |
| Warm Water Fisheries | Aquatic-life or related | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians reported this lake in its 2022 Integrated Report cycle but reached no assessment determination, so no causes are listed. An undetermined waterbody is neither confirmed clean nor confirmed impaired.
Reading the record
What Leslin Lake's record holds
Scale and rank
Leslin Lake is one of 13,176 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Minnesota. It is not among the 1,939 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 11 assessed acres it ranks 30,499th 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 30,498 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians filed this lake 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 Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians 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.
In context
Where Leslin 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
11 Top 79% larger than 21% 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 Leslin Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Minnesota context
ATTAINS carries 13,176 lake-type waterbodies in Minnesota, 1,798 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 1,566 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Minnesota | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Superior Not Supporting | 13,182,720 |
| Lake of the Woods Not Supporting | 301,348 |
| Red (Lower Red) Not reported | 164,699 |
| Lower Red Lake Fully Supporting | 164,689 |
| Mille Lacs Not Supporting | 128,076 |
| Red (Upper Red) Not Supporting | 119,279 |
Lakes near Leslin Lake's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (11 acres here).
- Big Sandy Creek (Warrior Lake) · 11 acres · AL
- Lydon Lake · 11 acres · WI
- Hawkins Pond · 11 acres · RI
- Indian Springs · 11 acres · WI
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 Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians's reported decisions for assessment unit RLN_LESL. 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.