Big Base Lake East
Pulaski County, Arkansas40 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from Arkansas DEQ for this lake.
- Limited data
Big Base Lake East in Pulaski County, Arkansas has water-quality measurements published by Arkansas DEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 40 acres.
Big Base Lake East is a 40-acre lake in Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, ADEQ, last sampled 2012-03-14. 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 Big Base Lake East is safe to swim in today is a call for the Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Big Base Lake East
These are the measurements Arkansas DEQ publishes for Big Base Lake East, 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
40 acres
No bathymetric survey has been published for Big Base Lake East, so its depth is not documented here.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Big Base Lake East is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Wilson Lake Dam (completed 1958), built primarily for recreation on the Wilson Creek; earth-type dam, 35 ft tall and 400 ft long.
- Surface area
- 40 ac
- Normal storage
- 380 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 623 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- USAF AMC
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID AR00076 · Operator website · Matched by proximity (0.29 km)
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Frequently asked questions about Big Base Lake East
Where is Big Base Lake East?
- Big Base Lake East is a lake in Pulaski County, Arkansas. Its water-quality measurements are published by Arkansas DEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Big Base Lake East?
- Big Base Lake East in Pulaski County, Arkansas has water-quality measurements published by Arkansas DEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 40 acres.
Is Big Base Lake East 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, 2012. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- USGS Arkansas Water Science Center
USGS-AR2 samples · 2012
Analytical methods
- Secchi disk method
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.