WATER LEVEL SYSTEM

In reference to a previous comment on Water.
Do you trust this system ? Andre

WATER AGAIN - A CONTRACT

Hi all,

As you are aware one of the duties of a UCO VP is to work with CV Unit Owners who come to the UCO Office with issues. You will not be surprised that a key subject of concern in my first two days at the Office is the ghastly condition of the Lakes, Canals and Lagoons.

The principal problem is the Reclaimed Water Agreement. It states, among other things, that the County will provide UP TO 750 thousand gallons per day. This means obviously that virtually any amount they deign to provide is contractually acceptable this includes zero gallons up to a cap of 750K gallons.

The actual amount provided in the 328 days of delivery from inception on Feb. 7, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2008 is 86,888,000 Gallons. This averages out to 264,902 Gallons per day. However it is not so simple; because they provide virtually nothing during some days in the rain season, following is the monthly totals of Reclaimed Water provided to CV in 2008 by month, in Gallons:

FEBRUARY: 3,345,000-----MARCH: 832,000-----APRIL: 26,000-----MAY: 27,651,000.

JUNE: 38,468,000-----JULY: 1,149,000-----AUGUST: 187,000-----SEPTEMBER: 0-----OCTOBER: 0-----NOVEMBER: 15,230,000.

DECEMBER: 0.

Thus if you cast out the rain season days in which we got nothing, and if you assume that the water company does not issue "rain-checks" for days that no water is provided, the numbers start to approach the contractual cap, for those days that it is actually delivered. In short, we have been weaseled!

If you are interested in the Contract, which is hardly friendly to our CV Unit Owners, see:

http://oris.co.palm-beach.fl.us/or_web1/details.asp?doc_id=13489450&file_num=20030515561

Finally, I believe Sal and Pat are writing an article on this problem for the UCO Reporter, which will further explain the situation we find ourselves in.

Dave Israel

Water is raising in the lakes

I was surprised to see this morning that according to my own gage system, the water seemed to have raised a little bit in the canal next door. I went and checked the meter of the recycled water and yes we purchased over 5,800,000 gallons so far this week which is twice our normal quota of 750,000 a day. Maybe the Executive meeting has produces those results. We are still far away from an acceptable level of water but when things are moving in the right direction we should encourage those responsible and congratulate them. That is what I am doing here. Andre

CV Sandbox

AKA north canal, I was too happy with the midweek waterfall, it was a 2 ½ day wonder.
Photos from Grace of rapidly drying canal on Saturday. Water stopped.
What the !! croak !!

CV Waterfall

Tropic breezes waft the palms around the CV waterfall (reclaimed water inflow), needs little pathways and green benches.
There is a little more water this week but it still does not even reach the bottom of the measuring pipe. The brown line could be last year’s rainy season mark, Ya think! This post goes along with Andre’s comments on amount pumped.

Foam & Algae

You don’t like the pics?! It still looks better than it smells, whatever was sprayed we now have foam and algae, birds enjoy it.

Cypress Lakes Lake

Water levels in Cypress Lakes looked higher than ours. 12”-18” drop from edge, water very clear, I saw no algae. Healthy common waterweed underwater (Egeria densa for Dave) shows stability of water level. They have high volume fountains in every inlet for oxygenation (fine spray ornamental fountain in photo). Do you think they pay Base Commodity Fee of $3257.00 per month? Needs more research. CL signed up for up to 700,000 gals per day, CV up to 750,000 gals per day. CL has ½ the water area.

Our lakes again..

One would imagine that water would be running from the recycling plant to our thirsty lakes and lagoon at this time of the year since it is the dry season.
However the canal receiving the 750,000 gallons a day of water from the recycling plant is as dry as a thirsty man in the Sahara desert.
The measuring post at the bottow of the canl sticks out dry also as no water is coming in.
The meter installed on the piping system tells the thruth. The reading last Monday at noon was 144,053,990 and now it reads 144,655,720. An increase of 601,730 gallons is the difference. Since we are supposed to buy 750,000 gallons a day that adds up to 4,500,000 gallons for 6 days.
This week we are short of about 3,900,000 gallons. No wonder our lakes are going down and the flowers and grass are crying for water. WHAT'S GOING ON AT UCO?
Friday I was told by a well connected source that the information at UCO is that we are buying our complement of recycled water everyday.WHAT'S GOING ON AT UCO?
Why is it that UCO and WPRF are letting the lakes, canals and lagoon being depleted like this? Properties with a water view are more expansive generally and there is no difference here.
In case some of our elected officials did not realize it, we are paying UCO dues and WPRF for our quality of life enjoyment and that includes having lakes that are clean, enough water to feed the grass and flowers on our properties and lakeshores properly maintained.
When are we going to have a professionnal administration that will accomplish that???????Andre

CV PICS DU JOUR

This is where the reclaimed water comes in when it comes. Is beautification our job or the Water Co. they did create a berm? Riparian plantings in the Water Co. property next to Sussex, will protect their banks against erosion (When the pickerel weeds, etc. grow). This is how it is done.