Lbrf Lake
Franklin County, Alabama1,300 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from ADEM for this lake.
- Impaired · Mercury
- 64 ft max depth
- Limited data
Lbrf Lake in Franklin County, Alabama has water-quality measurements published by ADEM, shown here as reported. Surface area: 1300 acres.
Lbrf Lake is a 1,300-acre lake in Franklin County, Alabama with an estimated average depth of about 64 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, ADEM, last sampled 2013-04-30. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
What Lbrf Lake is good for
From access and monitoring records, not editorial picks.
- Big water1,300 acres
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Lbrf Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for mercury. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Lbrf Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Lbrf Lake
These are the measurements ADEM publishes for Lbrf 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
Max depth
~64 ft est.
Surface area
1,300 acres
Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. Alabama has not published bathymetry for Lbrf Lake.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
61 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
22 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
633 ft
Size, shoreline, and watershed area from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS). Mean depth here is modelled, not surveyed — HydroLAKES v1.0 estimates lake depth from surrounding terrain rather than from soundings. Treat it as an approximation, and prefer a state bathymetric survey where one exists.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Lbrf Lake is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Little Bear Creek Dam (completed 1975), built primarily for flood risk reduction on the Little Bear Creek; earth-type dam, 89 ft tall and 2,425 ft long.
- Surface area
- 1,300 ac
- Normal storage
- 45,320 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 52,500 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 61 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- TVA
All listed purposes: Flood Risk Reduction;Other;Recreation;Water Supply.
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID AL05903 · Operator website · Matched by proximity (0.38 km)
EPA Impairment Status
Lbrf 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: Fish consumption.
Source: EPA ATTAINS assessment unit AL06030006-0205-111 · Official waterbody report
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Frequently asked questions about Lbrf Lake
Where is Lbrf Lake?
- Lbrf Lake is a lake in Franklin County, Alabama. Its water-quality measurements are published by ADEM and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Lbrf Lake?
- Lbrf Lake in Franklin County, Alabama has water-quality measurements published by ADEM, shown here as reported. Surface area: 1300 acres.
Is Lbrf Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Lbrf Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for mercury. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Lbrf Lake?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Lbrf Lake, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 64 feet, but that is a modelled estimate derived from surrounding terrain rather than a measurement on the water, so treat it as approximate. The lake covers 1300 acres.
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Where this data comes from
3 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2013. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- ALABAMA DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - WATER QUALITY DATA
21AWIC3 samples · 2013
Analytical methods
- Phosphorus by Colorimetry
- 10200 H ~ Chlorophyll a-b-c Determination
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
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)