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Originally Posted by Old Traveller
The dry season ends the last full week of May. Write it down. Mother Nature flips a switch and the heat, humidity and afternoon storms roll in. The Villages drained the ponds pretty good before the last hurricane of 2024, Milton I believe. However, the Villages didn't get the anticipated rain, thus a shortage. But, that's better than homes flooding if Milton had dropped 20 inches of rain. Homes in the Villages north of 466 use all potable water from the aquifer. Homes south of 466 use non potable water for landscaping and potable water for homes and our outside hoses from the aquifer. However, if the ponds dry up they use potable water from the aquifer for landscaping. Tom Hanks is narrating a series on television called "The Americas". Hanks said Florida's aquifer is over a thousand feet deep in some areas. He said every rain storm drops billions of gallons of water. The rivers flowing into Crystal Springs Florida, where the manatees hang out in the winter, delivers between 800 to 500 million gallons of water per day.
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Actually, they significantly drained the ponds after Milton, which was our last hurricane. If they’d left the water alone at that time since no new storms were in the forecast, we’d still have full ponds now. This flood prevention system would make sense if it was used sensibly, but it’s not.