Although rainfall on Bainbridge Island from April to June was the least amount recorded in more than the past 20 years, city officials aren’t concerned that residents will be facing water restrictions.

That’s the message this week from Kellie Stickney, spokeswoman for the city of Bainbridge Island.

“As of now, there’s no evidence that our current water sources are being affected by the drought,” Stickney said. “We don’t anticipate any restrictions.”

Rainfall amounts dating back to 1993 have been recorded by island resident Vince Mattson. According to his measurements, only 2.88 inches of rain fell this year from April to June.

That’s the smallest amount for that time period since he began recording.

“It’s just been pretty dry,” Mattson said. “We had a bit of rain on Saturday (July 11) — only about 5 to 10 minutes and it wasn’t measurable. It didn’t even discolor the ground or the pavement.”

Mattson said he doesn’t recall another June that has been as dry as this year.

He said, generally, the first half of June is nice and “just as soon as the kids get out of school, it starts raining.”

That didn’t happen this year.

In general, he said, one year will be wet and the next year will be dry.

“Every other year we have a low amount of rain, an average of about 26 inches,” he said. “Then the following year, we’ll have an average total of 41 inches. This pattern is well-established.”

Rainfall totals on Bainbridge are very similar to those at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is where Seattle’s rainfall is recorded. He said rainfall in Bremerton is usually more than what’s seen on the island.

“When we have an annual average around 50 inches, Bremerton will have 56,” he said. “They have different wind patterns.”

As for this year’s drought, Mattson said he’s noticed it at his house.

“It takes me about 2 to 2½ hours to mow my lawn and normally I get three heavy loads of grass,” he said. “When I mowed last weekend, I only had a scant two loads. My grass really didn’t grow much in the last three weeks.”

According to Mattson’s records, the wettest April to June was in 1993 when Bainbridge Island recorded 12.70 inches.

In 2015, April saw 1.83 inches, May had .77 inches, and June saw only .28 inches of rain. Averages for those months are April: 2.79 inches; May, 2.15 inches, and June is 1.58 inches.

The dry spell has been accompanied by a long stretch of hot weather. The first week of July saw four days of 90-plus degree temperatures on Bainbridge.

In early July, the city asked residents of the Rockaway Beach area to conserve water. City officials said that high consumption of water was stressing the one well that serves about 90 homes.

City officials said the Rockaway Beach water system is served by only a single well with limited capacity, so at times of high consumption the system can be stretched to capacity.

“That wasn’t related to the drought,” Stickney said. “That had more to do with equipment.”

She also said that even with minimal rainwater runoff going into city sewers, the sewer treatment plant had not seen a significant difference in flow this summer.

But the lack of rain hasn’t yet affected the parks district, according to Dan Hamlin, parks services superintendent for the Bainbridge Island Metropolitan Park & Recreation District.

“We’ve been irrigating the ballfields as usual during the bulk of the season,” Hamlin said. “Now that that’s past, we’re trying to cut back and just keep the grass playable.”

He said he didn’t anticipate having to restrict watering in the coming month, but if asked to by the city or county, the district will do that.

“Really the only irrigating we do is the ballfields,” he said. “We don’t do much more than that.”