Silver Lake
Kent County, DelawareView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from DNREC for this lake.
- Impaired · Dioxins
- Limited data
Silver Lake in Kent County, Delaware has water-quality measurements published by DNREC, shown here as reported.
Silver Lake is a lake in Kent County, Delaware.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, your state environmental agency, last sampled 2024-12-12. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Silver Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for dioxins, pCBs. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Silver Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Silver Lake
These are the measurements DNREC publishes for Silver 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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EPA Impairment Status
Silver 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.
A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plan has been approved.
Source: EPA ATTAINS assessment unit DE290-L02 · Official waterbody report
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Frequently asked questions about Silver Lake
Where is Silver Lake?
- Silver Lake is a lake in Kent County, Delaware. Its water-quality measurements are published by DNREC and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Silver Lake?
- Silver Lake in Kent County, Delaware has water-quality measurements published by DNREC, shown here as reported.
Is Silver Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Silver Lake is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 5) for dioxins, pCBs. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Where this data comes from
36 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2021–2024. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-21.
Collected and reported by
- Delaware Dept Natural Resources & Environmental Control
21DELAWQ_WQX36 samples · 2021–2024
Analytical methods
- EPA/620/R-01/003 Secchi Depth
- 4500 P J ~ Persulfate Method for Simultaneous Determination of Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus
- 445.0 ~ EPA; Revision 1.2, September 1997, In Vitro Determination of Chlorophyll a and Pheophytin a in Marine and Freshwater Algae by Fluorescence
- Turbidity by Nephelometry
- 2130 B ~ Nephelometric 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.
Other records on this page
Impairment status from EPA ATTAINS 303(d) database