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Originally Posted by RobertScott
Someone posted on another site:
"Golf courses and common area (along major streets) irrigation comes directly from the retention ponds. Residential irrigation is waste water (ie sewage) that is treated to a safe but not drinkable safe level. Two entirely different systems and not interconnected. "
As anyone can log on anonymously there I thought I would see if this could be confirmed or denied here, where I have a sense of the trustworthyness ( or lack thereof ) of people who post here.
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Originally Posted by RobertScott
Excellent, ty
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Altavia is obviously correct, as you can read the excerpts from the District website.
This is why all the suggestions about "residents running their sprinkler to prepare for the hurricane", displayed a lack of knowledge about how the system works and how things are interconnected ... or not interconnected.
Typically, courses are allowed to use water of a lower quality for irrigation, than what residents would normally use.
The water coming out of the sewerage treatments plants (in most cases) is darn close to meeting EPA drinking water standards. There are 2 logical ways to improve that water quality ... "clean the water" to a higher standard or dilute the water to reduce contaminant concentrations. I'm fairly certain TV uses both techniques to some extent.
However they do it, nobody manages water better than The Villages. It may not be "cheap" to the consumer, but we get good quality water and they keep it from flooding our homes.