Arkansas Lake
El Paso County, ColoradoView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from Colorado WQCD for this lake.
- Limited data
Arkansas Lake in El Paso County, Colorado has water-quality measurements published by Colorado WQCD, shown here as reported.
Arkansas Lake is a lake in El Paso County, Colorado.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, CDPHE, last sampled 2022-11-09. 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 Arkansas Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Water Quality Control Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Arkansas Lake
These are the measurements Colorado WQCD publishes for Arkansas 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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Where is Arkansas Lake?
- Arkansas Lake is a lake in El Paso County, Colorado. Its water-quality measurements are published by Colorado WQCD and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Arkansas Lake?
- Arkansas Lake in El Paso County, Colorado has water-quality measurements published by Colorado WQCD, shown here as reported.
Is Arkansas 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 2 monitoring stations, 2022. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- Colorado River Watch (Volunteer)
CORIVWCH_WQX2 samples · 2022
Analytical methods
- Phosphorus by Colorimetry
Monitoring station identifiers (2)
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.