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Old 10-01-2022, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
I just skimmed the video and will watch in full later. Looks very interesting and informative!

He stated that they are designed for 10 inches in 24 hours but during Irma, they got 12-15 inches in 18 hours and they still worked. They outperformed their design.
As stated, The Villages basin design (storage) can receive 10" in 24 hours; the inlets can remove 7" in 24 hours. So that event was within the design limits of the system.

Ian produced greater than 17" in 24 hr in some areas so we may have seen water in the streets if that materialized here.

This was a 1/1,000 year event for those areas.

Last edited by Altavia; 10-01-2022 at 07:13 PM.