Iowa lake · state assessment record
Trumbull Lake
Assessment decisions reported by Iowa to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2024 reporting cycle, a cycle that carries an interim EPA action.
- 1,183
- Assessed acres
- Lake
- Water type
- Eutrophic
- Reported trophic class
This waterbody in one line
Trumbull Lake, a lake in Iowa, is assessed as fully supporting its designated uses, with one listed impairment cause in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2024), a cycle that carries an interim EPA action. By assessed acreage it sits among the largest 5% by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes); its impairment list is among the longest nationally (one listed cause vs 23,610 assessed lakes).
- Fully Supporting
- overall status
- P95
- Assessed size nationally
- P20
- Shorter cause list
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 Trumbull 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
The number that most separates Trumbull Lake nationally is assessed size: 1,183 acres, larger than 95% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.
Every ruled-on use is fully supporting
The filed use determinations for recreation 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.
IR category in the supporting band
EPA's Integrated Report category for Trumbull Lake is 2. 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.
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, Iowa carries 371 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Trumbull 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Contact Recreation | Recreation | Fully Supporting |
| Aquatic Life - Lakes and Wetlands Warmwater | Aquatic-life or related | Insufficient Information |
| Human Health | Recreation | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
Causes the state listed as impairing designated uses of this lake, with the cycle each was first listed and the Clean Water Act action recorded against it.
| Cause | Affected uses | First listed | Cleanup standing |
|---|---|---|---|
| pH | Aquatic Life - Lakes and Wetlands Warmwater; Primary Contact Recreation | 2018 | TMDL approved |
Reading the record
Trumbull Lake: Category 2 reading
2 Category 2: some uses supported, others not assessed
Iowa filed this assessment unit as Category 2: some designated uses are supported and others were not assessed in this cycle. Absence of a failing verdict is not the same as a full Category 1 finding.
Scale and rank
Trumbull Lake is one of 371 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Iowa, and one of 167 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 1,183 assessed acres it ranks 2,018th 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 2,017 lakes with a larger one.
Not yet on record
The state has not yet filed a definitive fish-consumption verdict and a definitive aquatic-life verdict for this record; those fields populate when it reports them in a future Integrated Report cycle.
Reported trophic class
Eutrophic is the trophic class the filing agency reported to EPA ATTAINS for this assessment unit. It describes nutrient enrichment, not whether the water is safe, and it is not a PlainLakes inference. What the trophic scale measures.
In context
Where Trumbull 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
1,183 Top 5% larger than 95% 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 Trumbull Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Iowa context
ATTAINS carries 371 lake-type waterbodies in Iowa, 137 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 66 fully supporting. Among the 167 indexed units there, Trumbull Lake ranks 79th by listed-cause count (one listed cause) and 11th by assessed size among the 167 with an area filed; it is one of the 66 fully-supporting indexed records in the state . Its listed causes include pH, which also appears among Iowa's most-filed impairment causes (led by Chlorophyll-a).
| Other large assessed lakes in Iowa | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Red Rock Reservoir Not Supporting | 19,000 |
| Rathbun Reservoir - Main Basin Fully Supporting | 6,330 |
| Saylorville Reservoir Not Supporting | 5,950 |
| Coralville Reservoir Not Supporting | 4,900 |
| Big Spirit Lake Fully Supporting | 4,169 |
| Clear Lake Not Supporting | 3,684 |
Peers near Trumbull Lake's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (1,183 acres here).
- Homestead Lake · 1,184 acres · MT
- Somerville Lake · 1,184 acres · TX
- Panguitch Lake · 1,182 acres · UT
- Cocodrie Lake · 1,184 acres · LA
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 IA 06-LSR-1636. 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.