Wolf Creek Lake
Coffey County, Kansas5,090 acresView mapDirections
KDHE publishes the water-quality measurements for Wolf Creek Lake. Here is what has been measured.
- 91 ft max depth
- Limited data
Wolf Creek Lake in Coffey County, Kansas has water-quality measurements published by KDHE, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 4.6 ft visibility. Phosphorus: 20 µg/L. Chlorophyll-a (algae): 6.4 µg/L. Surface area: 5090 acres.
Wolf Creek Lake is a 5,090-acre lake in Coffey County, Kansas with an estimated average depth of about 91 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, KDHE, last sampled 2016-08-03. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
What Wolf Creek Lake is good for
From access and monitoring records, not editorial picks.
- Big water5,090 acres
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Wolf Creek Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Wolf Creek Lake
These are the measurements KDHE publishes for Wolf Creek Lake, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
Murky, only visible to about 4.6 ft. Phosphorus 20 µg/L. Chlorophyll-a 6.4 µg/L. TSI 50.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 4.6ft | Measured, not scored How deep a black-and-white disk stays visible from the surface. Higher is clearer. |
| Total phosphorus | 20µg/L | Measured, not scored The nutrient that most limits algae growth in freshwater. More phosphorus, more algae potential. |
| Chlorophyll-a (algae) | 6.4µg/L | Measured, not scored The green pigment in algae — a direct measure of how much algae is in the water. |
| Trophic state (TSI)Carlson's 0–100 index of how much algae a lake can support, from clarity, phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. | 50 | Eutrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
High nutrients, frequent algae, reduced clarity
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Lake Details
Max depth
~91 ft est.
Surface area
5,090 acres
Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. Kansas has not published bathymetry for Wolf Creek Lake.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
31 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
32 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
1,079 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)
Wolf Creek Lake is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Cooling Lake Dam - Wolf Creek Unit 1 (completed 1980), built primarily for other; earth-type dam, 82 ft tall.
- Surface area
- 5,090 ac
- Normal storage
- 111,280 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 192,693 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 27.4 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORPORATION
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID KS09311 · Operator website · Matched by proximity (0.81 km)
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Frequently asked questions about Wolf Creek Lake
Where is Wolf Creek Lake?
- Wolf Creek Lake is a lake in Coffey County, Kansas. Its water-quality measurements are published by KDHE and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Wolf Creek Lake?
- Wolf Creek Lake in Coffey County, Kansas has water-quality measurements published by KDHE, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 4.6 ft visibility. Phosphorus: 20 µg/L. Chlorophyll-a (algae): 6.4 µg/L. Surface area: 5090 acres.
Is Wolf Creek Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Wolf Creek Lake?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Wolf Creek Lake, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 91 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 5090 acres.
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Where this data comes from
5 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2016. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- Kansas Department Of Health And Environment
21KAN001_WQX5 samples · 2016
Analytical methods
- Depth, Secchi disk depth
- 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
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)