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Marin Water Urges Continued Adherence To Restrictions: Report
Recent series of storms has boosted the MMWD's supply, but the agency is urging residents to continue their conservation efforts.
MARIN COUNTY, CA — A series of early-season storms has dramatically improved Marin’s water crisis.
But the Marin Municipal Water District is warning against complacency, The Marin Independent Journal reports.
A “bomb cyclone” late last month dumped 16.55 inches of rain on Mount Tamalpais over a 48-hour period and an atmospheric river dropped an additional 3.32 inches of the wet stuff on the North Bay county’s tallest peak.
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The storms have pushed the MMWD’s water supply from 32 percent of capacity on Oct. 20 to around 55 percent earlier this week, the report said.
But MMWD spokeswoman Emma Detwiler told The IJ it’s too soon for Marin residents to take their feet off the gas from a conservation standpoint.
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“If temperatures warm up and people let their guard down and turn irrigation systems back on and abandon those good conservation habits, we can really find ourselves back to much-below-average storage pretty quickly,” Detwiler told the news outlet.
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