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Originally Posted by CarGuys
We need a good steady rain for several days. To refill the ponds and dilute that sewage.
It was explained to me when the ponds are low that sewages is tansfered to water you lawns. Ehewwww!
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Not true. The water used for residential irrigation (south of 466) is a combination of the ponds (which are fed by rain runoff) and the lower aquifer (not the same aquifer that we get our drinking water from). The irrigation water for the golf courses, however, does have a component from the waste water treatment plant (along with the ponds and the lower aquifer).
I have seen the water coming out of the waste water treatment plant up close (could literally reach out and touch it). It has no odor and is so clear that you would think that you could drink it - but hasn't been purified to the extent that you really could drink it.