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| OHCC LIVING | DECEMBER 2018 | 47 As a man in a row boat out in the middle of the ocean once said, "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink." We know that there is a lot of water under our community but until we sink a test well we will not know just how much, for how long or how "sweet" the water will be. Starting Nov. 13, we are beginning to answer those questions, with a goal to provide the community with enough water of a useable quality to fully water the golf course on a continuing basis. The Master Board hosted a Town Hall on Nov. 9, to have an open discussion with the major participants and an open mike for questions and answers. Around 40 community members were present at the meeting. One of the key points of discussion was the "WHY" of embarking on this large-scale project in the first place. Here is the gist of the math behind the effort: • We spend approximately $200K per month on watering the golf course alone, cumulatively around $2,400,000 per year on water which is an ever increasing cost here and everywhere in California; • A reasonable estimate is that we will realize an annual $150,000 savings on golf course water usage alone by sinking our own well; • Estimates are that we will recover the entire cost of putting in a well in about two and a half to three years; • Someone asked the panelists how they will go about answering the critical questions of HOW and HOW MUCH. For starters, • The HOA hired a Golf Course Architect (Van Dyke), a Hydro-geologist firm (SCS Engineers) plus the well drillers to work together to locate and drill the test/final well. That effort started with "shovels in the ground" on the Nov. 13, at a site located near hole #18. • Out of the original six sites they surveyed they picked out the site that had the statistically most probable well output using a high-tech Very Low Frequency (VLF) technology to identify the most optimum fracture that could produce the best opportunity for containing the desired water table. This VLF technique has been used by the US Navy to communicate between submerged submarines around the world for decades. The Town Hall Meeting was televised and should be on our in-house TV channel 1960 by the end of the month of November according to HOA employee Anthony Scalise. Golf Club

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