Table 2.
Number of lakes within HydrAP ranks by NLA survey year and by ecoregion. Sampled lakes in the NLA 2007 and 2012 surveys were ranked by potential anthropogenic hydrologic alteration on a score from zero to seven across five aggregated ecoregions in CONUS (Figure 2).
| 2007 | 2012 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HydrAP | West | Great Plains | Midwest | Apps | Coastal Plains | Total | West | Great Plains | Midwest | Apps | Coastal Plains | Total |
| 0 | 28 | 10 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 74 | 44 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 83 |
| 1 | 38 | 11 | 28 | 12 | 1 | 90 | 32 | 7 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 99 |
| 2 | 18 | 23 | 67 | 15 | 16 | 139 | 18 | 29 | 87 | 18 | 23 | 175 |
| 3 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 38 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 36 |
| 4 | 8 | 17 | 44 | 23 | 9 | 101 | 13 | 14 | 49 | 16 | 17 | 109 |
| 5 | 37 | 21 | 23 | 42 | 21 | 144 | 31 | 7 | 16 | 24 | 15 | 93 |
| 6 | 55 | 35 | 26 | 39 | 10 | 165 | 48 | 23 | 11 | 33 | 9 | 124 |
| 7 | 33 | 44 | 21 | 39 | 19 | 156 | 39 | 43 | 32 | 31 | 23 | 168 |
| Ranked | 221 | 162 | 254 | 186 | 84 | 907 | 238 | 135 | 259 | 158 | 97 | 887 |
| Not ranked | 17 | 31 | 29 | 27 | 17 | 121 | 25 | 31 | 36 | 30 | 29 | 151 |
| TOTAL | 238 | 193 | 283 | 213 | 101 | 1028 | 263 | 166 | 295 | 188 | 126 | 1038 |