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County makes deal on water: Officials give up fighting The Villages over water use in exchange for a $250,000 study on alternatives.
Byline: Ramsey Campbell
Mar. 21--TAVARES -- An offer by The Villages to spend as much as $250,000 to study alternative water supplies has ended the threat of a fight between Lake County and the mega-development over its future water usage. The Villages, one of the country's fastest-growing retirement developments, asked the South West Florida Water Management District last month for a permit amounting to an average daily increase of about 9 million gallons of water -- or about 3 billion gallons a year.
The 65,000-resident retirement community now is authorized to use about 14.8 million gallons of water a day -- or 5.4 billion gallons a year. The ...
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