All Marin County reservoirs now filled to capacity

Fog hovers over Nicasio Reservoir in Marin County, California, on Thursday, April 9, 2015. Fog hovers over Nicasio Reservoir in Marin County, California, on Thursday, April 9, 2015. Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 8 Caption Close All Marin County reservoirs now filled to capacity 1 / 8 Back to Gallery

The wet weekend means that Marin County's final holdout, Nicasio Reservoir, is now full. Nicasio joins Lagunitas, Bon Tempe, Alpine, Kent, Phoenix and Soulajule, all of which have now hit capacity.

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Just last month, Carl Gowan, principal engineer for Marin Municipal Water District, told us they were expecting the final reservoir Nicasio to be full by the end of February. Although a week late, our recent rainstorms have helped their predictions come true.

Since the beginning of the El Nino rainy season, the district has reported 39.63 inches of rain at Lake Lagunitas. Officials say they're at 97.78 percent of average rainfall for this season, which began on July 1st.

The district's reservoirs are known to reach capacity even in drought conditions due to them being much smaller than some of our state's larger reservoirs. However, with California's four-year drought the district's reservoirs have not been this full since December 2014.

Amid our current rainstorm and with only a few weeks left in the rainy season, Marin residents have still been advised to conserve water.

"Any one year isn't going to make or break a four-year drought," Drew McIntyre, the district's chief engineer stated. "No matter how much it rains, we still need to conserve because we don't know what will happen next year."