Flood control in The Villages
 

I have always heard and read about how The Villages has a great flood control system where, in the event of a hurricane, they can flood the golf courses and save the houses.

Does anyone know the specifics on this? How much rain can they handle before they are overwhelmed? Would they have been able to handle the 18-24 inches that were forecast? Or would many homes have been flooded?

The communications we received from them said they were prepared for a 100 year flood event. Not sure how that comes out in inches, but I think we are better off than most in any event.

Just a few posts down. Check out the video posted by twoplanekid.
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...system-335597/

I strongly doubt the water management could or would control 18-24 in of rain.
There was a post a while back maybe in Deluna where pumps have been running since July.
The narrative of 100 year weather events are now creating a narrative of 500 year events, there are some serious issues to consider with climate events..

I just skimmed the video and will watch in full later. Looks very interesting and informative!

He stated that they are designed for 10 inches in 24 hours but during Irma, they got 12-15 inches in 18 hours and they still worked. They outperformed their design.

The video is a bit over 40 minutes long but the presentation is absolutely FABULOUS!!!!! I recommend it. The storm water management is nothing short of miraculous in this community. The infrastructure is well worth what we pay in bond.

Yes, it is very encouraging to know The Villages can handle so much storm water very efficiently.

Their "Water Management" system, didn't do much good during Irma.
Ask anyone on the historic side.
You couldn't cross the golf cart bridge for a week and the power was about that long.

That was in prep for a repair. Had nothing to do with too much water.

Point to someone whose house flooded, that would be a reason to doubt the system. Flooded tunnels and approaches *could* have been due to lack of power to run lift pumps (you write that both resolved at about the same time). And obviously, keeping the power on is not a function of a water management system.

The water management system is not on the historic side. The infrastructure and homes were built in the 60s. Probably above ground wired.

Really? Always a troll in these threads. I guess you would bring up the 1906 Earthquake and troll the lack of preparedness if you lived in San Francisco.

A 100 year storm is a civil engineering thing. Basically means there’s a 1% that a storm (1/100) that size will happen. It is possible for a 100 year storm to happen two years in a row - but the chances are low.
The goal of water management is to keep the water out of the houses, it needs to go someplace, it will go to the golf courses, the tunnels, etc.

My understanding is that very few homes had water intrusion with Irma.

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Sounds correct. Golf courses and tunnels had lots of water.

The big thing we need to be concerned about are the tornadoes. We had one on Groundhog Day that did a lot of damage in 2007.

As stated, The Villages basin design (storage) can receive 10" in 24 hours; the inlets can remove 7" in 24 hours. So that event was within the design limits of the system.

Ian produced greater than 17" in 24 hr in some areas so we may have seen water in the streets if that materialized here.

This was a 1/1,000 year event for those areas.