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Originally Posted by buzzy
When the lakes and catch basins get too high, The Villages just runs the sprinkler systems continuously. The ground can absorb the excess water.
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It makes sense to do that in advance of an expected heavy storm in order to lower the pond level, and I know management does that, but if it has already rained enough, fast enough, to overflow the pond, and it is still raining hard, resulting in water running off the grass onto the streets and into the storm drains and into the pond, then it seems to me that at that point the sprinklers would only add to the water that is already running into the pond. I suppose it could help a little, but not much once the ground is saturated.