Lunga Reservoir
Stafford County, Virginia474 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from Virginia DEQ for this lake.
- 49 ft max depth
- Limited data
Lunga Reservoir in Stafford County, Virginia has water-quality measurements published by Virginia DEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 474 acres.
Lunga Reservoir is a 474-acre lake in Stafford County, Virginia with an estimated average depth of about 49 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, Virginia DEQ, last sampled 2021-12-07. 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 Lunga Reservoir is safe to swim in today is a call for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Lunga Reservoir
These are the measurements Virginia DEQ publishes for Lunga Reservoir, 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
~49 ft est.
Surface area
474 acres
Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. Virginia has not published bathymetry for Lunga Reservoir.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
10 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
7.5 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
299 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)
Lunga Reservoir is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Lunga Dam (completed 1956), built primarily for recreation on the Beaverdam Run; earth-type dam, 59 ft tall and 1,300 ft long.
- Surface area
- 474 ac
- Normal storage
- 5,200 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 12,800 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- DOD USMC
All listed purposes: Recreation;Water Supply.
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID VA179001 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Lunga Reservoir
Where is Lunga Reservoir?
- Lunga Reservoir is a lake in Stafford County, Virginia. Its water-quality measurements are published by Virginia DEQ and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Lunga Reservoir?
- Lunga Reservoir in Stafford County, Virginia has water-quality measurements published by Virginia DEQ, shown here as reported. Surface area: 474 acres.
Is Lunga Reservoir safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Lunga Reservoir?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Lunga Reservoir, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 49 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 474 acres.
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Where this data comes from
2 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2021. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
21VASWCB2 samples · 2021
Analytical methods
- Total Phosphorus After Block Digestion
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
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)