West Virginia reservoir · state assessment record
Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6
The assessment record reported by West Virginia to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2022 reporting cycle.
- 3.39
- Assessed acres
- Lake / Reservoir / Pond
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6, a reservoir in West Virginia, was reported but not assessed in the state'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
- P8
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
How Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6 reads against 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: 3.4 acres, smaller than 92% of the 38,628 lake-type units carrying an area.
IR category 3 on Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6
The Integrated Report category filed for Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6 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, West Virginia carries 434 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture and Wildlife | Other | Not Assessed |
| Public Water Supply | Drinking-water supply designation | Not Assessed |
| Warm Water Fishery | Aquatic-life or related | Not Assessed |
| Water Contact Recreation: Fish Consumption | Fish-consumption or fishery | Not Assessed |
| Water Contact Recreation: Recreation | Recreation | Not Assessed |
| Water Supply Industrial, Water Transport, Cooling and Power | Other | Not Assessed |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this reservoir in its 2022 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 Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6's record holds
Scale and rank
Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6 is one of 434 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from West Virginia. It is not among the 44 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 3.39 assessed acres it ranks 35,578th 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 35,577 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
West Virginia filed this reservoir 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 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.
In context
Where Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6 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
3 Top 92% larger than 8% 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 Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
West Virginia context
ATTAINS carries 434 lake-type waterbodies in West Virginia, 44 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 31 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in West Virginia | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Tygart Lake Not Assessed | 1,852 |
| Cheat Lake Not Supporting | 1,440 |
| Summersville Lake (d) Not Supporting | 1,305 |
| Stonewall Jackson Lake (c) Not Supporting | 1,168 |
| Mount Storm Lake Fully Supporting | 1,167 |
| Sutton Lake (c) Not Supporting | 944 |
Lakes near Salt Lick Creek Dam No. 6's assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (3.39 acres here).
- Big Cat Slough · 3.39 acres · WI
- Eagle Rock Lake · 3.39 acres · NM
- Fawn Lake · 3.39 acres · WI
- Camp Seven Lake · 3.39 acres · 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 WV-OLK-L1-069. 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.