[virgind]

Now I lived on a boat and the only time you worried about water level was when the tide went out. Low water not high water. Only in The Villages.

[delima2000]

You can't get to the boat to board. The ramp is full of water.

[gap2415]

I lived for a year on my boat too...pull the line and climb over the deck.

[skip0358]

And if somebody got hurt then there would be bitching they should have closed the boat down .

[virgind]

Should have had floating docks

[Bogie Shooter]

Oh my..........

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by virgind

Should have had floating docks

It's not unusual for small lakes to have fixed docks

[Johnd]

There is also a section of the walk to the Gazebo under water. They have pumped excess water through the sprinkler system in the past to control lake level. Is this a new policy or trouble at the pumping station?

[downeaster]

Originally Posted by Johnd

There is also a section of the walk to the Gazebo under water. They have pumped excess water through the sprinkler system in the past to control lake level. Is this a new policy or trouble at the pumping station?

I believe that is a natural lake unlike the man made retention ponds. It would be difficult to control the water level by pumping a body of water that size.

[virgind]

That lake use to be a cow pasture. They pumped the water in from lake Miona. Pump it back.

[twoplanekid]

Google earth view from 1994 of the water/pond/lake

[Bryan]

High water levels can be a problem anywhere. Here (TV) it is due to fixed docks being under water. On the Mississippi River high water can block many ships from going under bridges. I know the Delta Queen has an "elevator" pilot house and swivel smoke stacks for those types of problems and still that boat got "trapped" due to high water and a low bridge. NOT literally trapped under a bridge but trapped on one side of the bridge and could not proceed on its cruise due to high water levels and the low bridge.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Johnd

There is also a section of the walk to the Gazebo under water. They have pumped excess water through the sprinkler system in the past to control lake level. Is this a new policy or trouble at the pumping station?

Lake Sumter is not "pumped" to lower the level.
Yes, new policy.......excessive rain.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by virgind

That lake use to be a cow pasture. They pumped the water in from lake Miona. Pump it back.

Where did that information come from?

[Johnd]

According to the folks who maintain the boardwalk, the huge water pumping station just next to the new golf cart facility is actively used to help control lake water levels and maximize water storage. Lake Sumter is normally used as a water storage vessel by pumping water into the lake from other retention ponds that are overfull. That's how overfull retention ponds today can be down 2' tomorrow.

When there is excess everywhere, as now, the process has been reversed to pump water from Lake Sumter to the retention ponds and then out of the ponds via the sprinkler system. Have you ever driven Buena Vista Blvd when 2/3rds of the sprinklers are on even though rain has been heavy the last 3 or 4 days? This is lake water level control.

Or so it's been explained to us.