Recent heavy rains have bolstered low water supplies for the Puget Sound area.
As a result, the City of Bellevue utilities department has reduced its water shortage response plan to the lowest level, the “advisory stage.”
Utilities spokesman Michael May said the trouble the area found itself in this year could repeat in 2016 due to El Niño.
The advisory stage asks residents to be aware of water usage. Current water levels are 92 percent of the norm.
Above advisory stage comes voluntary and mandatory stage and finally an emergency stage. The Seattle area has experienced the mandatory stage several times in the last decade, but not for several years.
Residents are asked to be mindful of wasting water.