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Old 10-01-2022, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by twoplanekid View Post
In this video, they talk about how the Village system reacted to Irma. Listen to what the experts who helped design and manage our water/storm management systems have to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VWL2iYzY-o
Just watched the entire video. This storm water management system is just amazing. It is very comforting to know that the system worked even better than expected during Hurricane Irma. Given the amount of rain we had and the fact that we had unprecedented conditions with 30" of rainfall in the two months prior to Irma, The Villages came out unscathed. I know our street in Mallory barely accumulated one inch of rain at any given time during the storm (when I was awake to see it anyway).

Even before watching this video, I had a feeling that the storm management system north of 466 was a bit different than what we have south of 466. The potable and non potable water is not separated as it is south of 466. Yes, there were improvements to the system when they laid the infrastructure for the water management system south of 466. I would not be surprised if the engineers made more improvements as they moved south of 44 but that is just pure conjecture on my part.

The presentation is a very good one and I recommend watching it.

Thanks again to twoplanekid for posting this video presentation.
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