By TomL
Many years ago there a water study done by a hydrologist out of Orlando. He had a one of a kind machine he had personally invented, that could tell you what was going on down in then aquifers. He studied the whole area. I Florida water run south under ground. It has three aquifers upper middle and deep one. The hydrologist conclude there was no middle Aquifer in Sumter County, which is not good for normal water storage and could not supplying a large Development. He explain that is why there are so many sinkholes in the area. The water when it tries to regenerate itself with a good rain the water rush from the upper straight to the deep aquifer taking ground and rocks and what6 ever is in the way. Wala sinkhole!
The claim got disputed and the hydrologist left the area, I heard he left the business and sold his Hydrology machine to some big company. The development continued sprawling across the counties at a rapid rate.
At the time they even claimed the Villages brought lake Weir down two feet. I had and still have the Village Spectator and at that time I was delivering a lot of homes in the Villages. My paper covered it. Lot’s of battles went on.
The Villages is a bunch of Community Development Districts. If they keep the districts small enough they don’t have to report to the state. So things have been quiet but sooner or later the bear will awake and realize they don’t have water. Water is probably the most critical subject there is in the Villages. They must water the golf courses, the infrastructure before you can have a drink or water your lawn. I don’t know when it will happen but I know it’s coming and I won’t be pretty. That is a battle I will not in but then two home owners associations . One the Villages owns and the other thinks it can control the Villages by legal matters NOT TRUE!
The building has not slowed. The voting base is too big to control.
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