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Originally Posted by Hifred
I read this article. I do not live in the Villages but would like to live there someday. What concerns me is that politically the villages is a large voting group. There is a lot of political power with all of the residents. So how does a water bottling plant in Sumter County get a permit to pump 500,000 gals. of water a day. The permit is issued and pumping will begin this summer. Why don't people in the Villages ban together to help stop this knowing that water disturbance has an effect on sinkholes? Between the mine blasting for the quarry and the water being drained by the water bottling plant it is easy to see that in the future there will be more sinkholes. Water disturbance and the land tremors from blasting can't help the sink hole phenomenon. Has an effort been made to ban residents together on this issue and go after the politicians who are supporting the permit for water pumping?
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The Villages is actually in parts of Sumter, Marion, and Lake Counties. Only that fraction that lives in Sumter could vote on this issue. Sumter is a large county, extending south to the Green Swamp, and around the Bushnell area it extends east to west from Nobleton to Center Hill. This dilutes the perceived large voting block of The Villages.
But, I agree with you that The Villages people in Sumter County
could make a difference IF they ever banded together.