Marin Municipal Water District to Vote on Cutting Back on Outdoor Watering

The Marin Municipal Water District Board on Tuesday night is set to vote on restricting outdoor watering.

Trustees are expected to approve the California Water Board's requested cuts by limiting outdoor water to three days a week.

"I don't think we're going to have any issues," said Michael Ban, the water district's chief engineer. "I think people will be very supportive of us providing more incentive to do conservation here."

However, several Marin County residents told NBC Bay Area prior to the vote they were not in favor of the plan.

"If you guys go along with this it's craziness. We have this water up there -- it's ours, we paid for it," a Tiburon man who did want to be identified said to the district. "You got a two-year water supply up there that I paid for through 15 years of paying your bills."

Marin's water is largely dependent on its reservoirs -- 75 percent of the county's water comes from lakes and the other 25 percent from the Russian River.

The reservoirs are currently above normal.

"We're a little bit above normal for this time of year," Ban said.

The cutbacks on outdoor watering being voted on does not include Gov. Jerry Brown's request for a 25-percent cutback -- those restrictions are expected to be added on at a later time.

Marin County residents have conserved 12 percent of water from 2013 levels. Water district authorities are waiting for clarification from the state to see if residents will have to cut back another 13 percent to meet Brown's request.

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