History
The Carson Sink was a deep portion of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan, the lakebed of which is now the Lahontan Basin. The Carson Trail used during the California Gold Rush across the Lahontan Basin included a section from through the Forty Mile Desert to the first drinkable water on the Carson River. The Carson Sink station of the Pony Express was built in March, 1860. The Carson Sink UFO incident was in July, 1952. In 1984, the natural dike between the Carson Sink and the Humboldt Sink was breached by the Nevada Department of Transportation to prevent Interstate 80 and the town of Lovelock from flooding due to unusually heavy snowfall in the preceding three years. The sinks remained connected by water until 1987.
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