Maryland impoundment · state assessment record
Myrtle Grove Lake
Assessment decisions reported by Maryland to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2022 reporting cycle.
- 19
- Assessed acres
- Impoundment
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Myrtle Grove Lake, an impoundment in Maryland, is assessed as fully supporting its designated uses, with no impairment causes listed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2022). By assessed acreage it sits below the national median by assessed acreage (38,628 lakes); its impairment list is shorter than on half of assessed lakes (0 listed causes). Aquatic life is assessed as fully supporting. Maryland assesses fishing as supported; it reported no verdict on fish consumption itself.
- Fully Supporting
- overall status
- P32
- 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 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.
Myrtle Grove 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: 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.
All ruled-on uses pass
The filed use determinations for fish consumption, 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 Maryland
State size rank 33 of 37 puts Myrtle Grove Lake toward the small end of Maryland's indexed lake-type units with an area.
IR category in the supporting band
EPA's Integrated Report category for Myrtle Grove Lake 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.
Overall status: fully supporting
Overall status is Fully Supporting. If an IR category or cause row still appears, it usually reflects a prior listing path or a use the overall rollup does not collapse, read those sections rather than stopping at the tile.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Maryland carries 63 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Myrtle Grove 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Life and Wildlife | Aquatic-life or related | Fully Supporting |
| Fishing | Fish-consumption or fishery | Fully Supporting |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state's reported assessment lists no impairment causes for this impoundment.
Reading the record
Myrtle Grove Lake: Category 1 reading
1 Category 1: all designated uses supported
Maryland 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.
Scale and rank
Myrtle Grove Lake is one of 63 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Maryland, and one of 37 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 19 assessed acres it ranks 26,530th 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 26,529 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Maryland 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 recreation verdict for this record; that field populates when it reports it in a future Integrated Report cycle.
In context
Where Myrtle Grove 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
19 Top 68% larger than 32% 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 Myrtle Grove Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Maryland context
ATTAINS carries 63 lake-type waterbodies in Maryland, 32 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 18 fully supporting. Among the 37 indexed units there, Myrtle Grove Lake ranks 37th by listed-cause count (no listed causes) and 33rd by assessed size among the 37 with an area filed; it is one of the 18 fully-supporting indexed records in the state .
| Other large assessed lakes in Maryland | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Deep Creek Lake Not Supporting | 3,887 |
| Conowingo Reservoir Not Supporting | 3,070 |
| Liberty Reservoir Not Supporting | 2,933 |
| Loch Raven Reservoir Not Supporting | 2,236 |
| Prettyboy Reservoir Not Supporting | 1,472 |
| Jennings Randolph Reservoir Fully Supporting | 941 |
Peers near Myrtle Grove Lake's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (19 acres here).
- Lake Mary · 19 acres · UT
- Lake Okonoka · 19 acres · MI
- Marilla Brook Reservoir (Bradford City #3 Reservoir)-05010001002607 · 19 acres · PA
- Wash Pond · 19 acres · RI
Similar cause load
Nearest listed-cause counts (0 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.
- 31st Street Harbor · 0 causes · IL
- 42nd Avenue East Beach · 0 causes · MN
- 59th Street Harbor · 0 causes · IL
- 657 Dunleavy (Beach) · 0 causes · MI
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 MD-021401110782-Myrtle_Grove_Lake. 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.