North Bay residents raise flood of protest against Nicasio Dam expansion
The tiny Marin County town of Nicasio is up in arms, not because the nearby dam will fail, but because an expansion plan could flood their town if it succeeds. To store more water, the Marin Municipal Water District wants to use a rubber dam to raise the level of Nicasio Reservoir by about 4 and a half feet. Just upstream of the reservoir is the tiny hamlet of Nicasio, with about 250 homes and a population under 1,000. The folks in Nicasio are on wells and get no water from the reservoir except when it helps cause floods.
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