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    102 years ago

    The one near me got turned into 500 houses. The water infra couldn’t cope and everywhere now floods when it rains.

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      2 years ago

      That’s seriously one of the stupidest excuses I’ve heard. So whatever moronic contractors built the subdivision didn’t plan for adequate drainage. That has absolutely fuck-all to do with not being a golf course.

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        The golf course absorbed a lot of rainfall in the soil, and I live downhill from it. Rainfall now goes into them stormwater system instead of into the soil.

        Even though the new houses have drainage that is sufficient, it all runs into an existing pipeline that can’t handle it.

        As bad as golf courses are for the environment, paving over it is 100x worse.

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          22 years ago

          Well, yeah. Roads, houses and driveways don’t soak up rain. Probably whatever was there prior to the golf course did a better job at that. And the current key is “pipeline that can’t handle it”