Eutrophic Lakes in Virginia

50 eutrophic lakes in Virginia. High nutrients, frequent algae, reduced clarity.

A eutrophic lake is a productive ecosystem with the trade-offs that come with productivity: more food at the base of the food web, more clarity reduction by mid-summer, more dissolved-oxygen variability near the bottom. 50 {{stateName}} lakes register as eutrophic. Only 0% are deep — eutrophy correlates with shallowness, agricultural watersheds, and the kind of nutrient-input history that takes decades to shift.

Eutrophic lakes typically grade C or D on the LakeGrade rubric. The same nutrient richness that defines the trophic class drives the lower grade.

#	Lake	County	Grade	Clarity	Depth	TSI
1	Lowmans Ferry Rd Br. Lake	Pulaski	B	4.6 ft	-	51
2	Hardy Ford Lake	Franklin	B	3 ft	-	55
3	Mill Cr Reservoir	Amherst	B	3.6 ft	-	55
4	Hales Ford Lake	Franklin	B	4.9 ft	-	51
5	Confl. Beaverdam Cr. Lake	Bedford	B	4.3 ft	-	53
6	Confl. Indian Cr. Lake	Franklin	B	4.6 ft	-	52
7	Lee Hall Reservoir	Newport News city	B	4.8 ft	-	52
8	Mcclintic Pt. Lake	Bath	B	4.6 ft	-	51
9	Briery Creek Lake Upper End of Lake Prin	Prince Edward	B	3.9 ft	-	53
10	Sandy River Lake	Prince Edward	B	3.3 ft	-	55
11	Goose Creek Reservoir	Loudoun	B	2.1 ft	-	56
12	Townes Reservoir	Patrick	B	5.2 ft	-	51
13	Abel Lake	Stafford	B	5.2 ft	-	50
14	Near the Dam Lake	Amelia	B	3.9 ft	-	53
15	Smith Mountain Lake	Bedford	B	3.9 ft	-	54
16	Northeast Arm of Mill Creek Lake	Amherst	B	4.1 ft	-	53
17	Mill Creek Reservoir	Amherst	B	3.6 ft	-	54
18	North Arm of Mill Creek Lake	Amherst	B	3.6 ft	-	54
19	Lake Anna	Spotsylvania	C	3.3 ft	-	56
20	Swift Creek Reservoir	Chesterfield	C	3 ft	-	57
21	Upper Blackwater River Lake	Franklin	C	3 ft	-	59
22	Chickahominy Lake	Charles City	C	2.6 ft	-	57
23	Great Creek Reservoir	Brunswick	C	3.1 ft	-	57
24	Slate River Dam Scs Impoundment Lake	Buckingham	C	3 ft	-	56
25	Mountain Run Lake	Culpeper	C	2.6 ft	-	60
26	Keysville Reservoir-Charlotte	Charlotte	C	2.3 ft	-	60
27	Banister Lakesta	Halifax	C	2 ft	-	60
28	Diascund Reservoir Off Dam	New Kent	C	3 ft	-	57
29	Curtis Lake	Stafford	C	4.3 ft	-	54
30	Lake Orange	Orange	C	3.9 ft	-	56
31	Rural Retreat Lake	Wythe	C	5.2 ft	-	52
32	Burke Lake	Fairfax	C	4.9 ft	-	53
33	Nottoway Lake	Nottoway	C	3.3 ft	-	56
34	Little Pond	Sussex	C	-	-	61
35	Reedy Cr Lake	Brunswick	C	-	-	61
36	Lake Nelson	Nelson	C	3.1 ft	-	60
37	Chickahominy Reservoir	Charles City	C	2 ft	-	63
38	Brunswick County Lake	Brunswick	C	2.3 ft	-	63
39	Emporia Lake	Emporia city	C	1 ft	-	66
40	Falling Creek Lake	Chesterfield	C	2.3 ft	-	60
41	Lake Culpeper	Culpeper	C	2 ft	-	64
42	Totier Creek Reservoir	Albemarle	C	3 ft	-	60
43	Fluvanna Ruritan Lake	Fluvanna	C	3.3 ft	-	61
44	Powhatan Lake	Powhatan	C	2.3 ft	-	61
45	Lake Chesdin	Chesterfield	D	1.3 ft	-	66
46	Woodstock Pond North York R. State Park	James City	D	-	-	67
47	Woodstock Pond South York R. State Park	James City	D	-	-	67
48	Swift Creek Lake	Colonial Heights city	D	-	-	63
49	Woodstock Pond Stream York R. State Park	James City	D	-	-	69
50	Cohoke Millpond	King William	D	-	-	64

All eutrophic lakes →Minnesota version →Wisconsin version →Illinois version →Michigan version →Iowa version →Ohio version →Pennsylvania version →New York version →Missouri version →Indiana version →North Dakota version →South Dakota version →Florida version →Colorado version →North Carolina version →Vermont version →Texas version →Oregon version →Arkansas version →Oklahoma version →Kansas version →Nebraska version →Nevada version →Arizona version →Idaho version →Montana version →New Mexico version →Tennessee version →Alabama version →Kentucky version →Utah version →Washington version →Wyoming version →Georgia version →Massachusetts version →All Virginia lakes →

Source: EPA National Aquatic Resource Surveys, 2026.