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arrowhead """lakes""" in phoenix, az
Drunk boating deaths are probably through the roof there.
The first rule of Arrowhead Lakes HOA's Lake and Boating Rules is Swimming or wading is prohibited by Arizona regulations governing the use of reclaimed wastewater.
I can't tell if you're being serious or making a joke, but if that's forreal that's amazing. Like permanently blue balling yourself on a hot dry day staring at the water right behind your house
no joke; link goes to the rules PDF
Lol
Just look don't touch!
“The cheapest water that the city of Phoenix can get is the water that its customers don’t use,” Sorensen said. She advised residents to start using water wisely now for their families’ and neighbors’ sake. “They can help shape the future of water supply resiliency in our communities. I think that’s really important,” she said.
https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/29/phoenix-plans-tougher-water-cuts-colorado-river-crisis-grows/
The combination of businesses being instagram parlour, henna tattoo shop, airbnb and then two idiots who put their home adresses instead of their place of business adresses for TRUCK and bakery (not gay or maybe poisoned) really sells it
EDIT: oh my god that NE appendage that's not even on the lake anymore is a gated community
The trucking and bakery ones are legit. Trucking guy it's an independent operator so his home address is his business address. And the bakery is an at home baked goods thing. I know several people who do that.
My first thought was, this must smell really bad so i looked into it. Apparently they stock the "lakes" and when it rains (once every six months), all the fish die from the chemical runoff from everyone's yards.
Unlimited genocide on arrowhead lakes.
They say the fall of the Roman empire was seen to some as simply when their roads and bridges stopped being repaired, the fall of the yankee empire will be marked by no government workers showing up to stock your pond so it turns into a malaria cesspool
These things will become uninhabitable with 1/100 of the neglect of a Roman road.
chemical runoff from everyone's yards.
Lawns 
Is that chemical runoff from pesticides/herbicides? Or do they have to pump their lawns full of so much fertilizer to get the grass to grow there that the nitrate levels are through the roof?
All of the above
I didn't look into this specific place but I imagine those plus -- cars -- are enough to kill animals as small as fish. Non-gas (liquid and solid) pollution as I like to call them, from autos are plenty. Tire wear particles, random metal debris from chasis and drive-chain, fuel, oil, grease, coolant leaks, brake dust, exhaust soot, there's a whole bunch of shit coming out of them than just CO2. Truely an evil technology.
cars [...] non-gas pollution
The HOA's Architectural Guidelines confirms:
Also, as explained in the HOA rules i linked in my other comment, people can't swim in the lake (or eat the fish they stock it with; it's strictly catch-and-release fishing) because it's filled with reclaimed wastewater.
Thank you o7
Also it's ridiculous they "stock" artificial lakes with fish, ugh. The atonements they make, for the sin of being born as a non-human animal... :(
no fucking way man that's invoking the dead guinea pig copypasta with the snake
The saudis made a bunch of stuff like that. Found out you needed waterflow if you didn't just want a moscito incubator. I imagine there's the same issue here.
Houston has thousands of these in their suburbs, but they're usually not something you're allowed to use and are full of bubblers/recirculators
Can't you just throw some gouramis in
Another comment said the fish die constantly because of the chemical runoff from everyone's lawn.
So it could work if it weren't for the other incredibly stupid thing they're doing to destroy the environment
I'm just wondering what the evaporation rate is on a small body of water like this in an area where it rains 2-3 times a year.
"We are tempted to feel sorry for the poor history-less millionaire who, to recreate Europe in the desolate savannahs, destroys the genuine and turns it into an unreal lagoon."
Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality
I honestly do to some extent. They worship money so much that they chase it even into places they have no love for or desire to live in. What an empty life.
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This country is so doomed
Long live China. Long live the Chinese stock market.
I will be fucking dancing in the streets the day the NYSE collapses
There's like a bajillion of these in Miami and Orlando but those make sense there. Like they actually connect to the ocean through some canals.
The MacDaddy of them all is Cape Coral. The American Venice.
The bigger problem with those is that many were not developed with water and sewer systems, instead each lot has its own septic system and water well. These areas are actually too dense to support every home doing that, so people have started to run out of water. Now cities like Cape Coral are spending a lot of money to bring sanitary sewer and water to every lot.
Fuck me I didnt sven think about how utilities would work on these layouts. They don't.
“Sense” in that they’re actually close to sea level, maybe, but can you get ~~flood~~ rising sea levels insurance? Or will they all be literally underwater in a decade?
“Sense” in that they’re actually close to sea level, maybe, but can you get flood rising sea levels insurance? Or will they all be literally underwater in a decade?
This will not be a problem as they can simply sell their properties to Aquaman.
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Every time one of these suburb nightmares gets posted I can never get over the street name conventions. How do you have multiple streets with the same name that don't connect and aren't even near each other
oh god, the bizarre combination of indigenous tribal names, anglo names, and numbered city streets (in the suburbs???) why are we putting N or W in front of the names, when the streets are curved? why are some of the cul-de-sacs avenues, some are lanes, and others are drives?? did we need a N 52nd Dr and a N 52nd Ave?
this place is every delivery driver's nightmare
this place is every delivery driver's nightmare
and you just know they're crappy tippers
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Just as the Aztecs intended
The Aztecs built on a lake, the Yankees made lakes around their buildings. You'd think one of them would be easier to maintain than the others, but the answer might surprise you
God i love mosquitos 
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Lots of the roads have little breakwaters, so yeah, confined to only being able to boat over to the neighbours across the “lake”
all of this bullshit for it to end up looking like they have an overflooded drainage canal
I baby sat in there once as a teen. It was awful.
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