Newman Lake Water Quality
Resources/Background
“I Love Newman Lake” PowerPoint Presentation – Water quality presentation, brought to you by the Property Owners Association. It includes the history, geology, what WE can do as a property owner, what other orgs are doing to help, etc.
Spokesman Review Article (August 16, 2026) – “With Newman Lake resembling split pea soup, residents are left wondering what can be done and whether it’s worth staying”
Spokane County Water Quality Testing – Official tests for Newman Lake water quality.
What you can do?
Subscribe to the Newman Lake Property Owners Association newsletter: NLPOA newsletter signup
Sign up for Spokane County emails: Form Center • Newman Lake Email Distribution List
Everyone in our community can help. 27% of the phosphorus that drains into our lake is from “other watershed runoff”. We have a 29 mile watershed that sinks in like a bowl: everything flows down into the lake. That is all of us, folks. Everything that washes down our drains, our driveways, our yards… makes its way into the lake. 1,800 households worth of phosphorus and other chemicals. So tonight, when we are talking to the county about what THEY are doing, I expect us to be prepared to talk about what WE are doing at home. Stop by the Spokane Conservation Department table and sign-up to get “Lake Care OK’d”—that’s a checkoff list saying you are doing everything you can to help keep the lake clean.
Organizations Involved
Newman Lake Property Owners Association
Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/Newma
Email – NewmanLakePOA@gmail.com
Website – https://newmanlakewa.com/