Anchor Lake
Pearl River County, Mississippi345 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from MDEQ for this lake.
- Limited data
Anchor Lake in Pearl River County, Mississippi has water-quality measurements published by MDEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 345 acres.
Anchor Lake is a 345-acre lake in Pearl River County, Mississippi.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, your state environmental agency, last sampled 2022-05-17. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Anchor Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Anchor Lake
These are the measurements MDEQ publishes for Anchor Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
No clarity data.
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Lake Details
Surface area
345 acres
No bathymetric survey has been published for Anchor Lake, so its depth is not documented here.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Anchor Lake is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Anchor Lake Dam (completed 1965), built primarily for recreation on the East Hobolochitto; earth-type dam, 24 ft tall and 2,500 ft long.
- Surface area
- 345 ac
- Normal storage
- 2,274 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 3,370 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 8 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- ANCHOR LAKE PROP OWNERS ASSOC.
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID MS01454 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Anchor Lake
Where is Anchor Lake?
- Anchor Lake is a lake in Pearl River County, Mississippi. Its water-quality measurements are published by MDEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Anchor Lake?
- Anchor Lake in Pearl River County, Mississippi has water-quality measurements published by MDEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 345 acres.
Is Anchor Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Where this data comes from
2 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2022. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-21.
Collected and reported by
- MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
21MSWQ_WQX2 samples · 2022
Monitoring station identifiers (1)
EPA condition classes from the National Lakes Assessment (EPA 841-R-24-006, Table 6-3), applied by ecoregion. See where the data comes from and data sources.