There may not be anyone available to answer that question in The Villages offices. You would probably need to talk with someone with a hydrology or civil engineering background with access to the infrastructure design and the assumptions that went into the design. It may turn out that getting any sort of detailed information could take some time. Our retention pond has what I believe is a weir but I am not sure where it flows to and, more importantly, what the water level is of where it flows to. We are currently about 3-4 feet below the top of the weir.
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Originally Posted by maybe
If any residents of The Villages have a connection with the powers that be in The Villages, try to get an answer to the most important question: Factoring in the current high level of the retention ponds, how many inches of rain can we have before houses begin to flood in the most susceptible village?
Actually, we should have that information available to us for every village, because without it, we cannot make much use of weather predictions of X inches of rain.
BTW, some seem to think that having a drain grate near your house in the road or your backyard somehow means your house could not be flooded. Maybe some drains go to a big lake, but most here simply go to a nearby retention pond, and when that pond is overflowing, don't expect your local drain to be of much good unless your house is on a hill or higher plateau.
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