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  2. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot.. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3).

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    ≡ 0.3 m foot, metric (Mesures usuelles) (H) ... acre-foot: ac ft ≡ 1 ac x 1 ft = 43 560 cu ft = 1 233.481 837 547 52 m 3: acre-inch: ≡ 1 ac × 1 in = 102.790 ...

  4. Talk:Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    So we have the following conversions. 1 international acre foot ≡ 43,560 international cubic feet = 1233.48183754752 m 3 (exactly) = 325,851 + 3 ⁄ 7 US gallons (exactly) ≈ 271,328.072596 imp gal. I have also added a definition for the US survey version (as noted below).

  5. List of largest lakes of the United States by volume - Wikipedia

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    2,135,000 acreft (2.6 km 3) 21 ft (6 m) 69: Upper Red Lake: Minnesota: 2,129,000 acreft (2.6 km 3) 19 ft (6 m) sometimes considered a single lake with Lower Red Lake (Minnesota) 70: Elephant Butte Lake: New Mexico: 2,065,010 acreft (2.5 km 3) 157 ft (48 m) man-made 71: San Luis Reservoir: California: 2,041,000 acreft (2.5 km 3) 270 ...

  6. Acre - Wikipedia

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    Scottish acre = 1.3 Imperial acres (5,080 m 2, an obsolete Scottish measurement) Irish acre = 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2) Cheshire acre = 10,240 square yards (8,560 m 2) [55] Stremma or Greek acre ≈ 10,000 square Greek feet, but now set at exactly 1,000 square metres (a similar unit was the zeugarion) [56]

  7. Cubic metre - Wikipedia

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    Its symbol is m 3. [1] It is the volume of a cube with edges one metre in length. ... 1 km 3 = 1 000 000 000 m 3 = 1 TL (810713.19 acre-feet; 0.239913 cubic miles ...

  8. Los Angeles Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    In 1956, the State Department of Water Resources reported that Los Angeles was exporting only 320,000 acre-feet (390 million cubic metres) of water of the 590,000 acreft (730 million m 3) available in the Owens Valley and Mono Basin. Three years later, the State Water Rights Board warned Los Angeles that they could lose rights to the water ...

  9. Lake McClure - Wikipedia

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    It has a capacity of 9,700 acre-feet (12,000,000 m 3), about one percent of the capacity of Lake McClure. There is a hydroelectric plant at the dam with a capacity of 9 MW. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe eating advisory for any fish caught in Lake McSwain due to elevated levels of mercury. [3]