Oklahoma lake · tribal assessment record
Veteran's Lake
Assessment decisions reported by Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2019 reporting cycle.
- 5.00
- Assessed acres
- Lake
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Veteran's Lake, a lake in Oklahoma, is assessed as not supporting one or more designated uses, with 2 listed impairment causes in the Sac & Fox Nation's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2019). By assessed acreage it sits among the smaller assessed lakes nationally (38,628 lakes with a filed area); its impairment list is among the longest nationally (2 listed causes vs 23,610 assessed lakes). Aquatic life is assessed as fully supporting.
- Not Supporting
- overall status
- P10
- Assessed size nationally
- P10
- Shorter cause list
- Fully Supporting
- aquatic life
Assessment verdicts are the Sac & Fox Nation'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 Veteran's 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: 5 acres, smaller than 90% of the 38,628 lake-type units carrying an area.
Every ruled-on use is fully supporting
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.
Longer than most cause lists
2 listed causes puts this unit above 80% of assessed lake-type records by list length. Treat that as a coding-and-sampling signal: states that split pollutants finely mint longer lists without proving worse water.
Overall status: not supporting
The filer's overall status for Veteran's Lake is Not Supporting. That tile summarizes the assessment unit; the designated-use rows and cause list are the evidence behind it.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Oklahoma carries 456 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Veteran's 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 Sac & Fox Nation's definitive verdicts; other entries mean the use was not conclusively assessed in this cycle. The latest monitoring the Sac & Fox Nation filed against this record runs through 2020. For the definitive verdicts on this record, the Sac & Fox Nation filed the assessment basis as Monitored Data. Those are EPA's own words, not PlainLakes' summary of them.
| Designated use | Group | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Water Supply | Other | Fully Supporting |
| Aquatic and Wildlife | Aquatic-life or related | Fully Supporting |
| General | Other | Not Supporting |
| Livestock Watering | Other | Fully Supporting |
| Primary Human Contact | Recreation | Fully Supporting |
| Secondary Human Contact | Recreation | Fully Supporting |
| Fish Consumption | Fish-consumption or fishery | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
Causes the Sac & Fox Nation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phosphorus, Total | General | 2017 | None reported |
| Turbidity | General Also assessed as meeting: Aquatic and Wildlife | 2019 | None reported |
Reading the record
Where Veteran's Lake sits among peers
91% of Oklahoma's lakes assessed this deeply also came out mixed (the standard result at this depth, not a distinction)
The Sac & Fox Nation ruled definitively on 6 designated uses at Veteran's Lake and found 1 of 6 not supported. The dataset shows 101 Oklahoma lakes judged to that same depth.
Oklahoma's assessed lakes are most often judged on 5 or more uses, as this one was.
Computed share from EPA ATTAINS filed records, not an official EPA rating or safety grade.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All supported | 13 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Mixed | Not possible | 6 | 12 | 30 | 92 (this record) |
| None supported | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ringed cell: Veteran's Lake. Source: EPA ATTAINS, Reporting cycles 1987–2026.
Scale and rank
Veteran's Lake is one of 456 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Oklahoma, and one of 173 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 5.00 assessed acres it ranks 34,405th 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 34,404 lakes with a larger one.
Awaiting a filing
The Sac & Fox Nation 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.
Reported trophic class
The Sac & Fox Nation carried the trophic field for this assessment unit and filed it as unclassified, which records that no class was determined rather than that the water is unenriched. What the trophic scale measures.
In context
Where Veteran's 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
5 Top 90% larger than 10% 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
2 Longer than most more listed causes than 80% 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 Veteran's Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Oklahoma context
ATTAINS carries 456 lake-type waterbodies in Oklahoma, 153 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 45 fully supporting. Among the 173 indexed units there, Veteran's Lake ranks 93rd by listed-cause count (2 listed causes) and 166th by assessed size among the 170 with an area filed; it sits in the not-supporting set (153 statewide) . Its listed causes include Turbidity, which also appears among Oklahoma's most-filed impairment causes (led by Mercury). It also lists Phosphorus, Total, outside that top-five list.
| Other large assessed lakes in Oklahoma | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Grand Lake Site 12 Not Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 13 Not Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 14 Fully Supporting | 46,500 |
| Grand Lake Site 15 Fully Supporting | 46,500 |
| Robert S. Kerr Lake Not Supporting | 43,380 |
| Texoma Lake, Red River Arm, Lower Not Supporting | 31,081 |
Peers near Veteran's Lake's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (5.00 acres here).
- Abenaki · 5.00 acres · VT
- Albion Pond · 5.00 acres · IN
- Amherst · 5.00 acres · VT
- Aplington Pits · 5.00 acres · IA
Similar cause load
Nearest listed-cause counts (2 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.
- 12th St. Beach · 2 causes · IL
- 31st St. Beach · 2 causes · IL
- 49th St. Beach · 2 causes · IL
- 57th St. Beach · 2 causes · IL
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 Sac & Fox Nation's reported decisions for assessment unit Veterans 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.