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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter
"The sewer water goes to a sewage treatment plant to be treated and recycled as potable water."
If you don't know.....why make such a statement?
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My bad. The OP was complaining that the sewer rates are high. I was pointing out that water is water and it all gets recycled eventually. However, it is a lot more complcated and expensive to process raw sewage water than to process irrigation/storm water. That is why sewer rates are high. Any water can be converted into potable water, but that is also an expensive process. The sewer rates in The Villages are based on the amount of potable water used, and it is more expensive than the irrigation water used. Some people don't realize that the potable water used in the house travels through a different piping drainage system than the irrigation/storm water, and it must be processed at a sewage treatment plant. Although, in some older Villages sections, the only water piped to the house is potable water. Those people are paying a higher price to water their lawns because they need to use potable water and pay a sewer rate for it.