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Old 10-23-2024, 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by blueash View Post
What is the goal of running the sprinklers on roadsides and golf courses in preparation for a hurricane?

Is it to lower the water level in the waste treatment plant? keep the plant from overflowing...
Is it to lower the water level in the retention ponds? Allow the storm water from the storm to refill the ponds and not overflow the land....
Is it to drain the aquifer? obviously not

As we all know the courses south of 466 use wastewater and aquifer only. I don't know what water source is used in roadside/MMP irrigation and would not assume it is the same water as used on the golf courses without some authoritative link.

But if the goal is to lower the retention ponds then having homeowners irrigate would lower them. But running irrigation on golf courses does nothing to lower retention ponds south of 466.
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Originally Posted by JoMar View Post
Misleading generalized information.
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Originally Posted by CybrSage View Post
Don't be shy now, tell us why.
Because it was bunch of nonsense, from someone who doesn't understand the system, who came to the erroneous conclusion that residents running their sprinklers necessarily lowers the detention basins and running sprinklers on the golf courses, does nothing of value south of 466.

Folks should familiarize themselves with how the system works, before suggesting that the Developer & the District don't know what they're doing.