Speaking of foul odors, sewer processing plants and other things, here is a picture taken on Jan 13, 2012 of what appears to be a processing plant/facility of some sort off Bonifay Path across the street from the Bonifay Country Club. As is the custom it is hidden from the road by high bushes and one has to give a good hard look to discover it. Anyone interested can take a drive down and check it out.

I had a tour of the plant a couple of years ago which included a presentation by the head of The Villages sanitation department. He said that the plant there, once it was enlarged, will handle all of the building south of 466A.

This is the water storage tank that they are using instead of the tall towers that you see around. There is one similar to that off Morse near Bonita. This will not give off any odors.

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.

Tall water towers are necessary to generate the necessary water pressure via the law of gravity. A tower 70 ft tall will generate at least 30 psi of discharge pressure. A so called water tower of no significant height off the ground would generate very little pressure and be of no practical use. That's why we have numerous tall towers around TV.

Well, explain to me why the well at the intersection of Morse and Bonita as well as the well near Bonifay have no tall towers? Just a different method of storing water at a high point for distribution to lower points.

Rode through the area the other evening, glad to learn the odor had not originated from within the car.

Made me laugh. Thanks:laugh:

That'll usually happen after a trip to Krystal up in Ocala....... :ohdear:

Bill :)

Don't need tall towers if the stored water is PUMPED into the system from the low storage tank. The pumps provide the line pressure to move the water.


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That's what I was figuring as well. Regardless of how they move the water from the well near Bonifay into the system, the tank that is there is not any type of sewage treatment plant and should produce no odors.

We just bought a lot on Braddock Ct 2 days ago and visited it the next 2 days.
Had lunch outside at Bonifay (great burger) and
DID NOT SMELL ANYTHING!!
Believe me if we had we would not have bought there and I had read this before coming back.
Its an all Premier neighbor hood and no way would they have put it there if it stunk.

This thread has me extremely concerned. I just came back from TV having put my deposit down on a very nice golf view site right near the Club. I do NOT want to build a house on a site beginning of April if it is impacted by a bad smell or sitting on a toxic landfill. I can live with temporary but if this is a permanent issue.....Does anyone have any further information on this. Who do you call at TV besides your salesperson to find out the truth? Yikes!

Is the smell resolved? Does anyone know really what it is?
 

This thread has me extremely concerned. I just came back from TV having put my deposit down on a very nice golf view site right near the Club. I do NOT want to build a house on a site beginning of April if is impacted by a bad smell or sitting on a toxic landfill. Does anyone have any further information on this. Who do you call at TV besides your salesperson to find out the truth? Yikes!

It seems that none of the people who bought lots and built homes smell anything. I haven't and you didn't.

Did you check out the area mentioned by Homeball? Are you near a retention pond? The only bad smells I've experienced have come from ponds near Maintenance Buildings, not sure if they are sewer related.

This is NOT a processing plant. There is an identical tank near the intersection of Bonita and Morse and no one complains of odors from it. The fact that there is a well at both places as well is not just a coincidence. If you visit the processing plant on BV near Bonifay (by Bacall golf course) you will see that a real processing plant looks nothing like what is at Bonifay and at Bonita/Morse.

The smell was very strong in September and October but not so strong in late December. We noticed no smell during a recent visit to the area. Maybe it was a combination of hot days, heavy doses of of organic based fertlizer and heavy watering drawn from stagnant ponds. At that time they were "grassing in" the golf courses and common areas so everything was going full blast.

Many golf courses use organic fertlizer as part of their maintenance programs. In fact, Milorganite produced by the Milwaukee sewage plant is the most widely used, including in TV. It has its own unique smell for a few days after application (so good that the locals use it as a deer repellent). But the September-October smell was not Milorganite.

We will be building on Braddock CT in Fernandina. We had lunch at Bonifay and visited our site by car and golf cart.

The only smell we got was the gas golf cart provided by TV.

Every once in a while FL gets an early morning smell that I have noticed in Orlando, Tampa and when I visited my parents in Sun City. I chalk it up to it smells like FL!

Ever smell a paper/ pulp mill? Now thats bad.

We are very happy with our decision. If you are not try and get refund and look for another lot.

I was told it is because the store fertilizer there?????????

I smelled the mysterious odor when we were showing off our new neighborhood to some relatives who came to visit. We were standing by the Fernandina pool and we all got a whiff of a sulfur smell. One whiff and then it was gone. It was quite noticeable as we all made a comment about it when it occured. But it was gone as quickly as it came. It did not smell like fertilizer (we have been walking at the Polo club while they were fertilizing. Now that was an awful stink!) This smelled more like sulfur. Considering that most of the folks in the neighborhood have not smelled it at all, and I only smelled it for an instant, I'm not too worried about it.

We got in the car and drove over to TV (1 hour away) and walked our dogs at the Fernandina Pool.
We stopped in at the Bonifay Pro Shop then checked on our lot and saw all of the new housing starts just in the last few weeks.
You know what? NO smells and I have a real sensitive smeller.

We played Truman today starting at 10:40. When we got to the third green, we both noticed a sulfur odor. With the wind blowing from the north, it couldn't be originating in the Bonifay/Fernandina area. I wonder if they are doing something in that new facility on 466a between Buena Vista and Canal St. that is producing that odor. By the time we got to the 4th tee, we didn't smell it anymore.

It was definitely a sulfur smell that Mike and I noticed. After watching the movie Volcano many times and visiting the La Brea tar pits a few times... I was waiting for a volcanic vent to open up... ;) Didn't last long.

What are they doing there on the South side of 466A?
We saw the mound and all of the trucks moving dirt around.
What was there before they started building Bonifay CC and the houses there?

No Smell
 

My wife and I just got home to S. CA after spending 3 great days at TV. We spent a lot of time in the Fernandina/Bonifay area looking at our empty lot as well as the progress being made on the other new homes.

I’m pleased to report that I didn’t pick up any foul orders in any of the areas we visited. We walked around the empty lots as well as the pool and Starter Shacks around Bonifay.

We visited there all three days at different times of the day. We also had a leisurely lunch on the Bonifay patio yesterday afternoon, and still no orders. I’m feeling much better about this issue.

sorry -- should have typed "odors" not "orders". Must be the jet-lag...

Which model did you guys pick out?
We are excited to be going back for 6 days next week to pick out our stuff and hopefully staying within budget.
Glad you had a great time.

Did you ask Mike what he'd been eating?:D

I'm not a golfer so I didn't know there was an odor associated with golf courses. What creates the odor?

Fertilizers. The farmer next door to my place just spread his fields with chicken manure. It's zesty for a few days. Lucky the wind in the right direction.

nope, its construction debris, not organic waste.

Do golf courses require a different type of fertilizer than the grasses that are all over The Villages such as lawn for homes and all the common grounds?

I believe the shear volumes of turf require fertilizers that cost less than one uses on homes so maybe it has more of the "barnyard" in it. Just guessing. Higher nitrogen is desired on pastures, that I can bet the ranch on.

Now I get the picture. Thanks.