Big Alkali Lake
Mono County, California40 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from SWRCB for this lake.
- Limited data
Big Alkali Lake in Mono County, California has water-quality measurements published by SWRCB, shown here as reported. Surface area: 40 acres.
Big Alkali Lake is a 40-acre lake in Mono County, California.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, your state environmental agency. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
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Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Big Alkali Lake is safe to swim in today is a call for the California State Water Resources Control Board and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Big Alkali Lake
These are the measurements SWRCB publishes for Big Alkali 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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Lake Details
Surface area
40 acres
Shoreline
1.2 mi
No bathymetric survey has been published for Big Alkali Lake, so its depth is not documented here.
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Where is Big Alkali Lake?
- Big Alkali Lake is a lake in Mono County, California. Its water-quality measurements are published by SWRCB and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Big Alkali Lake?
- Big Alkali Lake in Mono County, California has water-quality measurements published by SWRCB, shown here as reported. Surface area: 40 acres.
Is Big Alkali Lake safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Where this data comes from
Measurements for Big Alkali Lake come from the EPA Water Quality Portal. Per-sample source details are not recorded for this lake.