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Originally Posted by coffeebean (Post 2378238)

So far, with the storms I have experienced her in The Villages, there has been zero accumulation of water in the street in front of my home. Anyone know how much rain water would stress our water management system in a specific time frame to the point that storm water would enter homes?

I don't believe that you have anything to worry about for the NEAR future. However if we were taking about 10 to 15 years in the future, the story is different. Warm air holds more moisture and both land temperature and water temperatures in the Gulf and water rise have been increasing rather dramatically. If we project that rise in temperatures which is increasing worldwide forward for 15 years then home flooding in the Villages would be likely. No one (especially not me) can accurately predict even 5 years in the future. Overall, I think that no one likes changes that are negative and older people (like residents here) seem to RESENT and deny even small changes. So, I am just SUGGESTING that people read up on the Science and ramifications of the Earth warming. There are many changes happening at the Polar regions that COULD be premonitions of changes to the mid latitudes of the US and the world.

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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2378274)

Never seen the ponds around here so high. The folks who designed this system did an outstanding job

Ditto!!! The infrastructure in this place is amazing. The cleanup effort after the storm is amazing. Kudos to the water management folks and to those that control all the water pumping stations that regulate the distribution of water throughout the villages

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Originally Posted by Sandy and Ed (Post 2379001)

Agree, the workers are doing a great job replanting trees, collecting and filling hundreds of dump trucks with debris to be hauled away.

Watching the new construction, they spend close to two years building the storm water systems.

I would not be surprised if 20-30% of our bond cost is to build those systems.

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Originally Posted by Altavia (Post 2379009)

Uh oh, you might have given some people a new thing to complain about.

It's really quite easy, if you live south of 44 and your home isn't on stilts, buy flood insurance. If one was a long timer and heard that they were going to build in that area, many heads were shaking. Water, water everywhere and then the fear of sinkholes with so many ponds, streams and other water areas present. There will always be a threat in heavy rainstorms, just prepare for it.

A change of perspective regarding the golf courses... they are primarily water retention and detention areas. When the areas aren't in use for water storage, one is welcome to use the golf courses built within to make people think they have fine golf courses. It all balances out, one just needs to develop another hobby other than golf for the "closed" days.