Southern Oaks is Closing
 

Southern Oaks is closing for 3 to 4 weeks. There is too much water in the Villages. They can't dump it in the quarry anymore. That area has hit its 100 year floodplain. So the Village is now going to dump all the water on Southern Oaks

With the amount of growth in Central Florida wonder if anyone thought about creating a large lake/reservoir in the area. Played Mallory yesterday and at highest point of the course, ground was saturated and it was clear that water had been pumped there. There is a thing about having too much water.

Information link?

I put the "blockhead" Smiley after the OP's post and the MOD removed it.

Looking forward to the source.

:popcorn:

Here is the source Golfthevillages.com
https://www.golfthevillages.com/pdfD...5-f28e0bc0dc21
Closing tomorrow after the morning wave.

I read on golf the villages, closing after afternoon wave Saturday.
I want to read more about 100 year plan and filling the quarry.

Hey, the glass is half full. No blasting in the quarry for the foreseeable future.

No blasting means aggregate shortage.:throwtomatoes:

Was wondering when this would happen. Golf courses are used as flood plains of last resort. It’s not like there are 12 Championship courses (10 with 27 holes) in the area to spread the water around on.

Not like that at all since there are 14 championship courses, 10 with 27 holes

I always thought that they flooded the executives first and flooded the revenue paying courses last.

Are they going to flood Shallow Creek?

If they flood them now, where are they going to put the water if we get a hurricane?

Most of the retention ponds are high but far from full.

I think it depends where the rain is projected to go and the amount of retention pond capacity that’s left.
There just aren’t enough other courses around Southern Oaks.
Since shallow creek just opened, the grass isn’t as established, so that would be a last resort.

Don’t believe they flood the course just run the sprinklers all day.

There are so many ponds that are very low. Why not dump it there?

You mean scoop it up with backhoes and bring to the "many ponds that are very low" ?

I'm not sure that's practical.