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Saturday, July 2, 2011

Water Clarification

The newspapers TV and officials have a bad habit of talking about WPB, when they mean City of WPB, which is not Century Village. We are unincorporated PB County - Palm Beach County Water Utilities (PBCWUD). You bloggers are right.
PBCWUD gets it’s drinking water from the Biscayne Aquifer, about 150 feet underground. It is a very dependable source of drinking water, free from agricultural runoff that most surface water sources have.
The City of WPB gets its water mainly from Clear Lake and Lake Mangonia, the Grassy Waters Preserve and the L-8 reservoir, they also have a well system. This article explains the problems City of WPB is having:

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