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Originally Posted by sandybill2
They do end up in golf course/Village ponds. Spoke to a fellow Villager once whose husband used to work on the golf courses and said they pulled many a plastic bag from the ponds. I just can't imagine the ignorance.
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This is definitely a problem and I think more people do it than we want to believe. I attended a VHA presentation a couple years ago where the topic was restrictions/deed compliance. Someone asked a question regarding dog waste and the guy doing the presentation (Nick someone) said to please not throw your filled plastic bag down the storm sewer because they end up in the ponds. He said this was becoming a big problem.
Take a look at the ponds after a big rain and you can see the Publix, Walmart, etc. bags bobbing at water's edge in the ponds. This is just as bad as the dog owners who bring their dogs to the pools/postal stations, walk them on that grass and then deposit the stinky bags in the trash cans that we walk by to get mail or go to the pool. I saw a guy do that at the Duval pool last fall.
Th Villages is an incredible place to live with many wonderful people, but unfortunately it's a large population and we have more than our fair share of clueless idiots.