Overview
- The lake ended the 2025 water year at 4,191.1 feet, the third-lowest level on record since 1903.
- State-led actions since 2021 have delivered nearly 400,000 acre-feet and stabilized south-arm salinity through adaptive causeway berm management.
- Researchers say restoring a healthy elevation of 4,198 feet by 2055 would require about 800,000 additional acre-feet per year.
- Proposals under discussion include paying farmers roughly $300 per acre to leave water in-stream and moving water from the Newfoundland Water Basin.
- Dust concerns are driving new measures, with over 120 square miles of exposed lakebed in Farmington Bay, promising tests of seasonal flooding, and a legislatively funded dust-monitoring network now being installed.