Cox Creek Lake
Grant County, ArkansasView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from Arkansas DEQ for this lake.
- Impaired · pH / acidity
- Limited data
Cox Creek Lake in Grant County, Arkansas has water-quality measurements published by Arkansas DEQ, shown here as reported.
Cox Creek Lake is a lake in Grant County, Arkansas. Phosphorus level is declining over recent sampling years.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, ADEQ, last sampled 2020-01-13. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Cox Creek Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for pH / acidity. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Cox Creek Lake 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 Cox Creek Lake
These are the measurements Arkansas DEQ publishes for Cox Creek 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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Water quality readings over time
3 seasons of samples on record (2020–2022). Calling a direction takes at least 4 years of the same measurement.
Phosphorus
Worsening+5 µg/L/yr3 years
Chlorophyll-a
Improving-5.45 µg/L/yr3 years
EPA Impairment Status
Cox Creek Lake is officially listed as impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) in the 2022 EPA reporting cycle (IR category 5).
Causes of impairment
Designated uses not supporting: Other.
Source: EPA ATTAINS assessment unit AR_08040203_4110 · Official waterbody report
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Frequently asked questions about Cox Creek Lake
Where is Cox Creek Lake?
- Cox Creek Lake is a lake in Grant County, Arkansas. Its water-quality measurements are published by Arkansas DEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Cox Creek Lake?
- Cox Creek Lake in Grant County, Arkansas has water-quality measurements published by Arkansas DEQ, shown here as reported.
Is Cox Creek Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Cox Creek Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for pH / acidity. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Where this data comes from
3 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2020. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- North American Lake Management Society
NALMS3 samples · 2020
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.
Other records on this page
Impairment status from EPA ATTAINS 303(d) database