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  2. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    The acre-foot is a non-SI unit of volume equal to about 1,233 m 3 commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, such as reservoirs, aqueducts, canals, sewer flow capacity, irrigation water, [1] and river flows.

  3. Acre - Wikipedia

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    One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.

  4. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    Legally defined as 1.033 English feet in 1859 ≈ 0.314 858 m: foot (Clarke's) (H) ... acre-foot: ac ft ≡ 1 ac x 1 ft = 43 560 cu ft = 1 233.481 837 547 52 m 3:

  5. List of largest reservoirs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3). Figures given are for maximum storage capacity (flood pool) of reservoirs, not regular storage volume (conservation pool).

  6. Central Coast lake spills for first time in 12 years. It’s ...

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    On Dec. 1, the lake held 60,285 acre-feet of water. By Jan. 11, Lake Nacimiento had risen to 275,060 acre-feet. The water has continued to stream into the reservoir, and by Jan. 17 it hit a high ...

  7. Talk:Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    If you are growing rice in a wet area, it still takes an acre-foot of water to flood a 1 acre field to a depth of 1 foot. That's just the definition of the unit. Lieutenant pepper 16:41, 6 March 2014 (UTC) A one acre rice paddy naturally flooded with rainwater is not water consumption, though, and while its volume would indeed be an acre-foot ...

  8. Furlong - Wikipedia

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    The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and square yards in an acre. The definition of the rod went from 15 old feet to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 new feet, or from 5 old yards to 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 new yards. The furlong went from 600 old feet to 660 new feet, or from 200 old yards to 220 ...

  9. These 26 hiking trails burned in the Eaton fire - AOL

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    The 700,000-acre area is set to reopen at midnight Saturday unless officials extend the closure. The trails below will likely remain closed even when Angeles National Forest remains open.