any retention pond experts out there? (home, neighborhood, live in)

[donisanasfan]

So here is the deal. We live in a new developing community, that has -like all florida communities-several retention ponds. Recently there has been an area of our development where they have dug out a new large retention pond. Over the last couple months that retention pond has been filling up and is ,at this point, almost to the grass line. At the same time , the retention pond in our part of the community has gone the other way- it has continued to recede and looks awful. The developer says that the reason our pond is low is a lack of rainfall and they cannot control nature. Now unless we have two different climate zones about 3/4 of a mile away from each other in our community, that answer isn't making a lot of sense to me. Can someone explain how the one retention pond is filling up, while the other one is going down. It would seem to me a ground water issue that is being directed to the new pond at the expense of the old one, but I am but a stay at home dad with out with out the vast knowledge of our beloved developers. What say you? Thanks in advance.

[madcapmagishion]

Originally Posted by donisanasfan

So here is the deal. We live in a new developing community, that has -like all florida communities-several retention ponds. Recently there has been an area of our development where they have dug out a new large retention pond. Over the last couple months that retention pond has been filling up and is ,at this point, almost to the grass line. At the same time , the retention pond in our part of the community has gone the other way- it has continued to recede and looks awful. The developer says that the reason our pond is low is a lack of rainfall and they cannot control nature. Now unless we have two different climate zones about 3/4 of a mile away from each other in our community, that answer isn't making a lot of sense to me. Can someone explain how the one retention pond is filling up, while the other one is going down. It would seem to me a ground water issue that is being directed to the new pond at the expense of the old one, but I am but a stay at home dad with out with out the vast knowledge of our beloved developers. What say you? Thanks in advance.

They might have hit an underground spring with the one pond (causing it to fill) and not the other.

[donisanasfan]

I should add that the two retention ponds mentioned are are no more then a half mile or so apart , and that every other retention pond in the neighborhood is at a normal level.

[EricBoyd]

Are the 2 ponds interconnected?

[donisanasfan]

not visibly, which is why I wondered about ground water sources. It just seems odd that one pond is filling up .....with out almost any rain water what-so-ever the past couple months, and the next closest pond to it is going down. Meanwhile all the other ponds in the neighborhood have stayed at normal levels.

[fsquid]

We've had this issue with a few here in JCP. I'll look at the minutes of the board meeting since I know it was discussed. No clue if they discussed the why.