Georgia lake · state assessment record
West Point Lake (10,078 acres)
Assessment decisions reported by Georgia Environmental Protection Division to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), last assessed in the 2026 reporting cycle.
- 10,078
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
West Point Lake, a lake in Georgia, is assessed as not supporting one or more designated uses, with 3 listed impairment causes in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2026). By assessed acreage it sits among the largest 1% of assessed lakes nationally (38,628 lakes with a filed area); its impairment list is among the longest nationally (3 listed causes vs 23,610 assessed lakes). Aquatic life is assessed as not supporting.
- Not Supporting
- overall status
- P99
- Assessed size nationally
- P5
- Shorter cause list
- Not 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.
How West Point Lake 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: in-state cause rank
Inside Georgia, cause-list rank is the local separator: West Point Lake is 1 of 98 indexed units by listed-cause count, toward the top of that state's filed lists.
Large assessed unit
At 10,078 acres, West Point Lake clears the upper tercile of assessed lake-type units with an area on file (324 still larger). Size comparisons use the portal's deduplicated lake ranking population, not raw ATTAINS row counts.
Every ruled-on use is not supporting
On the uses this filer ruled on, recreation, aquatic life, every determination is Not Supporting. That is a use-by-use reading of the filed record, not a single overall lake grade.
Longer than most cause lists
3 listed causes puts this unit above 90% 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.
West Point Lake: Category 5, TMDL still owed
Category 5 is the Integrated Report band where a TMDL (or equivalent) is still expected for West Point Lake. Read the listed causes and any cleanup actions filed beside them before treating the overall status tile as a finished restoration story.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ATTAINS program, Georgia carries 125 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to West Point 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drinking Water Supply | Drinking-water supply designation | Not Supporting |
| Fishing | Aquatic-life or related | Not Supporting |
| Recreation | Recreation | Not Supporting |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCBs in Fish Tissue | Fishing | 1992 | TMDL approved |
| Phosphorus | Recreation, Fishing, Drinking Water Supply | 2022 | None reported |
| Chlorophyll-a | Drinking Water Supply, Recreation, Fishing | 2026 | None reported |
Probable sources named by the state
Each source below is listed under the cause the state filed it against, and carries the word the state filed with it — confirmed, or suspected.
- PCBs in Fish Tissue
- Non-Point Source (suspected) Urban Runoff/Storm Sewers (suspected)
- Phosphorus
- Municipal Point Source Discharges (suspected) Non-Point Source (suspected) Urban Runoff/Storm Sewers (suspected)
- Chlorophyll-a
- Municipal Point Source Discharges (suspected) Non-Point Source (suspected) Urban Runoff/Storm Sewers (suspected)
Reading the record
Where West Point Lake sits among peers
39% of Georgia's lakes assessed this deeply also had no use supported
Georgia ruled definitively on 3 designated uses at West Point Lake and found none of them supported. The dataset shows 36 Georgia lakes judged to that same depth.
Georgia's assessed lakes are most often judged on 2 uses; this one was judged on 3.
Computed share from EPA ATTAINS filed records, not an official EPA rating or safety grade.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All supported | 20 | 41 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Mixed | Not possible | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| None supported | 9 | 5 | 14 (this record) | 0 | 0 |
Ringed cell: West Point Lake. Source: EPA ATTAINS, Reporting cycles 1987–2026.
Scale and rank
West Point Lake is one of 125 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Georgia, and one of 98 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 10,078 assessed acres it ranks 325th 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 324 lakes with a larger one.
Not yet on record
The state 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.
Why no water-level record
West Point Lake has no daily USGS water-level or reservoir-storage series on this page because a site carries the lake’s name, but that name fits more than one assessed waterbody in the state, and PlainLakes declines it rather than guessing. How PlainLakes links gauges.
In context
Where West Point 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
10,078 Top 1% larger than 99% 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
3 Longer than most more listed causes than 90% 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 West Point Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Georgia context
ATTAINS carries 125 lake-type waterbodies in Georgia, 47 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 72 fully supporting. Among the 98 indexed units there, West Point Lake ranks 1st by listed-cause count (3 listed causes) and 9th by assessed size among the 69 with an area filed; it sits in the not-supporting set (47 statewide) . Its listed causes include PCBs in Fish Tissue and Chlorophyll-a, which also appear among Georgia's most-filed impairment causes (led by PCBs in Fish Tissue). It also lists Phosphorus, outside that top-five list.
| Other large assessed lakes in Georgia | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Clarks Hill Lake Fully Supporting | 69,999 |
| Hartwell Lake Not Supporting | 55,950 |
| Walter F. George Lake Assessment unit GAR031300031304 Not Supporting | 29,890 |
| Richard B. Russell Lake Not Supporting | 26,650 |
| Seminole Lake Fully Supporting | 16,924 |
| Walter F. George Lake Assessment unit GAR031300031601 Not Supporting | 16,863 |
Peers near West Point Lake's size or cause load
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (10,078 acres here).
- Swan · 10,089 acres · MN
- Waurika Lake · 10,100 acres · OK
- Grand Lake O' the Cherokees, Lower · 10,051 acres · OK
- Willard Bay Reservoir · 10,109 acres · UT
Similar cause load
Nearest listed-cause counts (3 here). Peers already in the acreage column are omitted.
- 67th St. Beach · 3 causes · IL
- Abiquiu Reservoir · 3 causes · NM
- Absecon Creek (AC Reserviors) (gage to SB) · 3 causes · NJ
- Absecon Creek (below gage) · 3 causes · NJ
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 GAR031300020806. 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.