Texas reservoir · state assessment record

Wright Patman Lake (1,192 acres)

The assessment record reported by Texas to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2014 reporting cycle.

1,192
Assessed acres
Reservoir
Water type
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This waterbody in one line

Wright Patman Lake, a reservoir in Texas, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2014). By assessed acreage it sits among the largest 5% by assessed acreage nationally (38,628 lakes).

Not Assessed
overall status
P95
Assessed size nationally

Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.

Where Wright Patman 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 Wright Patman Lake nationally is assessed size: 1,192 acres, larger than 95% of the 38,628 lake-type units with an area on file.

IR category 3 on Wright Patman Lake

The Integrated Report category filed for Wright Patman Lake 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, Texas carries 489 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Wright Patman Lake without modification. See our methodology for reporting-unit limits and gauge linking rules.

Limited-coverage record. The reported record for this reservoir currently lacks a definitive fish-consumption verdict, a definitive recreation verdict, a definitive aquatic-life verdict, among other dimensions. It is shown for completeness; the richer records for Texas are on the state page.
Reporting cycle
2014
Texas Integrated Report
Listing category
Category 3
Uses with verdicts
0
Definitive use assessments
Sources retrieved
2026-08-17
Portal-wide ATTAINS + NWIS pull

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
General Use Other Not Assessed

The record

Listed impairment causes

The state reported this reservoir in its 2014 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 Wright Patman Lake's record holds

Scale and rank

Wright Patman Lake is one of 489 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Texas. It is not among the 323 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 1,192 assessed acres it ranks 2,010th 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 2,009 lakes with a larger one.

What this record holds

Texas filed this reservoir in its 2014 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 Wright Patman 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

1,192 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

In both charts each bar is a band and taller bars hold more waterbodies; the dashed line and filled bar mark Wright Patman Lake. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.

In context

Texas context

ATTAINS carries 489 lake-type waterbodies in Texas, 125 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 331 fully supporting.

Other large assessed lakes in Texas Assessed acres
Lake Texoma Fully Supporting 49,400
Toledo Bend Reservoir Not Supporting 41,046
International Falcon Reservoir Fully Supporting 36,817
Sam Rayburn Reservoir Not Supporting 28,238
International Amistad Reservoir Fully Supporting 21,328
Lake Livingston Not Supporting 18,238

Lakes near Wright Patman Lake's assessed acres

Similar assessed acres

Nearest filed extents (1,192 acres here).

How peers are picked

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 TX-0302_04. 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.