Connecticut lake · state assessment record
Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex)
The assessment record reported by Connecticut to EPA under Clean Water Act sections 303(d) and 305(b), filed in the 2014 reporting cycle.
- 30
- Assessed acres
- Lake, Freshwater
- Water type
This waterbody in one line
Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex), a lake in Connecticut, was reported but not assessed in the state's most recent Integrated Report cycle (2014). By assessed acreage it sits below the national median by assessed acreage (38,628 lakes).
- Not Assessed
- overall status
- P42
- Assessed size nationally
Assessment verdicts are the state agency's decisions as reported to EPA ATTAINS; PlainLakes renders them without modification.
Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex) against the ATTAINS 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
Assessed size is not the extreme here: 29.7 acres sits near the middle of the 38,628 units with an area filed (percentile 42).
IR category 3 on Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex)
The Integrated Report category filed for Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex) 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, Connecticut carries 182 filed lake-type waterbodies in the August 2026 extract, and this page renders the assessment record EPA assigned to Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fish Consumption | Fish-consumption or fishery | Insufficient Information Filer confidence: Good |
| Habitat for Fish, Other Aquatic Life and Wildlife | Aquatic-life or related | Insufficient Information |
| Recreation | Recreation | Insufficient Information |
The record
Listed impairment causes
The state reported this lake 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 Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex)'s record holds
Scale and rank
Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex) is one of 182 lake-type waterbodies reported to EPA from Connecticut. It is not among the 97 whose reported record carries enough populated assessment or gauge data for this site to list and index it. At 30 assessed acres it ranks 22,437th 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 22,436 lakes with a larger one.
What this record holds
Connecticut filed this lake 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 Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex) 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
30 Top 58% larger than 42% 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 Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex). Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share.
In context
Connecticut context
ATTAINS carries 182 lake-type waterbodies in Connecticut, 44 assessed as not supporting at least one use and 95 fully supporting.
| Other large assessed lakes in Connecticut | Assessed acres |
|---|---|
| Candlewood, Lake (New Fairfield/Danbury/Sherman/New Milford) Fully Supporting | 5,086 |
| Lillinonah, Lake (Newtown/Southbury/Bridgewater/Brookfield) Not Supporting | 1,595 |
| Bantam Lake (Litchfield/Morris) Not Supporting | 955 |
| Colebrook River (Reservoir) Lake (Colebrook) Not Assessed | 852 |
| Pachaug Pond (Griswold) Fully Supporting | 837 |
| Saugatuck Reservoir (Weston/Easton/Redding) Fully Supporting | 823 |
Lakes near Wrights Pond (Westbrook/Deep River/Essex)'s assessed acres
Similar assessed acres
Nearest filed extents (30 acres here).
- Lords · 30 acres · MN
- Rooster · 30 acres · MN
- Rice · 30 acres · MN
- Dawson Lake · 30 acres · ID
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 CT4019-00-1-L4_01. 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.