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Old 02-03-2016, 12:38 PM
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Seems to me there are far too many water main failures in The Villages. These are not 100 or 150 year old lines in cities. Has anyone heard why so many here? Sinkhole related? It looks like evidence that the infrastructure here was built on the cheap, like many things in the houses. What will be happening in 20 years?


I disagree. I can't think of any thing in either of our homes that was "built on the cheap".


We are on a peninsula. We have a lot of sand here and the possibility of sinkholes and shifting substrata.

Here is a link to frequent water main breaks in Orlando, Cape Coral and Sarasota.



.frequent water main breaks in florida - Bing
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