The study, entitled “Loughberry Lake Water Quality and Safe Yield Analysis Study” and conducted by Barton & Loguidice, spanned October 2023 through September 2024 and was provided to the city in March of 2025. The results of the 965-page study, obtained by the Saratogian, noted that Loughberry Lake can now hold less water than before, as the stable capacity of the lake has decreased approximately 7% from previous estimates, and that the system itself can safely provide less water per day than before, as the safe yield of the Loughberry Lake/Bog Meadow Brook system has decreased by approximately 22%. O
ne of the community members who spoke during Public Comment was BK Karamati, who is Marshall’s opponent in the November election for the DPW Commissioner seat. Karamati said when he could not locate the report on the city website, he emailed Marshall, received the report within minutes, and could not believe what he was reading. “The report was citing major degradations of quality and quantity of water since the 2001 report. For the life of me, I could not understand, I still can’t, why the report had not been made known to the citizens, nor the City Council since March of this year.”
Complete story (paywall-free) in the Saratogian. The full report (a 33 mb file) can be downloaded here.