[NatureBoy]

Originally Posted by Velvet

I can’t think of a person I know who’d be interested in this monstrosity, maybe grand kids? Please don’t come anywhere near Lake Sumter with it!

As a 50-something year-old planning to move to TV in a couple years, I'd LOVE to have access to an amenity like this. The pictures I've seen show people kayaking, wind surfing, paddle boarding, sailing. Those are all activities I enjoy and would like to have a nice venue to do them without worrying about alligators, weeds, snakes, bacteria, and all the other nasty things a "real" body of water has.

[Goldwingnut]

Originally Posted by Lisanp@aol.com

The large retention pond on the county line near the new power substation? Could the substation be cooled by water? No idea on technology in this area, but I do know that the blue lagoon in Iceland is waste water from a power plant...

The pond is a part of the old water treatment facility run by Leesburg. It’s been cleaned up significantly in the last 2 years since the villages acquired the property. No clue to its future use. Substation is only about 3 years old and air cooled.

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by NatureBoy

As a 50-something year-old planning to move to TV in a couple years, I'd LOVE to have access to an amenity like this. The pictures I've seen show people kayaking, wind surfing, paddle boarding, sailing. Those are all activities I enjoy and would like to have a nice venue to do them without worrying about alligators, weeds, snakes, bacteria, and all the other nasty things a "real" body of water has.

I believe you, at your age I would have thought the same. But near Lake Sumter we are talking about a small space in unswimable water to put something like this in. Noisy stuff near already built homes. Now if you’d like it in one of those swampy areas far south, I’d be ok with it.

[NatureBoy]

Someone is claiming the TV install is news to the Morses.

At approximately 10 am today, straight from the mouth morse, in person. "We didn't know either. ... We found out the same as you, when it showed up on that news channel.”

So this person appears to be claiming to have spoken to one of the Morses. I have no link to an "official" source.

It could be the Lagoon representative used The Villages incorrectly to identify the one that's being put in near by.

[almondz]

Personally, I would love to see a 'senior' water park where there are escalators to the top of the slides. Weeeee

[wisbad1]

Originally Posted by Goldwingnut

This is what I was looking at.
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Instead of rejecting your home's heat to the air in the outside condensing unit, an alternate condensing unit is installed with a control valve to capture the waste heat and use it for heating a pool. Once the pool is at the control temperature, the valve would shift back to using the original condensing unit.

In theory, the heat rejection to the water would be more efficient for your home heat pump and there would be some energy savings. An advantage over solar is that with solar, the pump speed must be increased to provide sufficient head to move the water through the panels on the roof, the heat is free, but it takes more power to move the water. With this system a slower pump speed can be used saving more energy, combined with the increased efficiency the savings could be significant, in theory.

Thanks

[SusanStCatherine]

Originally Posted by almondz

Personally, I would love to see a 'senior' water park where there are escalators to the top of the slides. Weeeee

That would be awesome! Even better would be glass elevators!

[VApeople]

Originally Posted by Goldwingnut

The pond is a part of the old water treatment facility run by Leesburg. It’s been cleaned up significantly in the last 2 years since the villages acquired the property. No clue to its future use.

On Sundays, we ride our bikes thru St. Catherine and Citrus Grove. We usually ride thru the neighborhood just south of the new Homestead Rec Center and north of the Substation.

Some of the new lots look directly onto the nasty-looking pond you referred to. It has a tall chain-link fence around it with barbed wire on the top, and I think it is ugly.

I bet The Villages will remove that pond before they start building homes.

[petiteone]

Originally Posted by tghoul

Lagoons coming to 5 Central Florida Counties

Do you know where it will be located in The Villages?

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by petiteone

Do you know where it will be located in The Villages?

See post 1 thru 53.

[thelegges]

Once build out is complete the website states the facility will no longer be offered to the public. So if they have acquired property anywhere near that the developers of TV doesn’t own I wonder if the same could happen.

So if you buy a home in the Lagoon development, it could be open to the public, until all homes are sold. Then could be private. At 2000 tickets per day some days are sold out near their facility near Tampa. That a pretty impressive number of tickets.

[Velvet]

Originally Posted by thelegges

Once build out is complete the website states the facility will no longer be offered to the public. So if they have acquired property anywhere near that the developers of TV doesn’t own I wonder if the same could happen.

So if you buy a home in the Lagoon development, it could be open to the public, until all homes are sold. Then could be private. At 2000 tickets per day some days are sold out near their facility near Tampa. That a pretty impressive number of tickets.

Now THAT’S something to look forwards to… especially if the glass elevator is included for the slide.

[graciegirl]

I would be astonished if the developers would be at ALL involved with this independent and separate commercial entity.

I read a bit about it this week as I could not post, I was banned for a week. It appears that they have a lot of plans, as Goldwingnut pointed out, and not much actual STUFF.

WHO would want to have it close to them??? Not really many Villagers who get unhappy with the sounds of children in swimming pools and the sound of pickle balls bouncing.

It appears to be a commercial money making business geared to the younger crowd, but I could be wrong. I was apparently wrong on this forum and had to sit in the bad chair for a week.

I will try to follow the rules. I don't like being on the outside looking in.

I don't think this water park has ANYTHING to do with the developer and The Villages at all.

[LiverpoolWalrus]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

See post 1 thru 53.

I'm gonna steal that idea!

[asianthree]

So location is in Sumter, that could be anywhere the developers don’t own property. Or maybe this is a big secret that got out, who cares. I am so happy to kayak, and paddleboard to fall in the water and not worry about a gator or a snake. I know many use the lakes here, but I am not comfortable with the lakes here.
Wherever this is, it will be popular and have many sold out days. I am guess there will be a pass holder option like the parks. Since there has been an a public statement, property has already been acquired, (like Disney acquired property quietly) or otherwise shooting them selves in the foot.