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Originally Posted by Rainger99
Why close a revenue earning course if there is room in the retention ponds?
It would be nice if the district or the developer would explain.
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This is not complicated.
Ponds are really water impoundment areas. They collect and hold water. A huge % of that water is directed to the ponds, via swales and piping. The water (rainfall) gets to the ponds faster than just relying on mother nature (grading). That's how the system is designed.
Water (rain or irrigation) that's dumped on reasonably flat terrain, infiltrates (is absorbed) until the ground saturates and surface water occurs. The surface water will eventually get infiltrated or flow to the water impoundment areas.
Think of it as a barn with a leaky roof. You have a bucket under the leak, to catch the water that leaks through the roof. If you hear there's a big storm coming, what do you do? The first thing you do, is empty the bucket, so it can hold more water. You dump the existing bucket of water on the round and let it be absorbed, then you put the bucket back under the leak.
That is what's going on. All the "buckets" are being dumped on the golf course, in the hopes that most of it will be absorbed by the ground before the rain hits and the buckets will be empty and ready to catch more water (rain).