Today the sink is fed by drainage canals of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District.

The southeastern fringe of the sink, where the canals enter, is a wetland of the Central Basin and Range ecoregion.

[3] The Lone Rock working area includes the Bravo-20 range, which has numerous targets for combat aircraft training.

Upon landing, the two colonels reported the incident to the Air Defence Command headquarters, who informed them that there were no military or civilian aircraft in the area at the time.

[8] 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.