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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). There has been two definitions of the acre-foot (differing by about 0.0006%), using ...

  3. Talk:Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    All this because of the lack in ability to do this simple calculation. I will illustrate here: 1 acre (1 foot thick) x # of gallons in a cubic foot. This is, simply 43560 (Cubic feet) x 7.48 gallons / cubic foot = 325,828.8 gallons - rounded to 325,829 gallons per acre foot (do it on a calculator!).

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

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    Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume

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

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    The water has continued to stream into the reservoir, and by Jan. 17 it hit a high of 334,235 acre-feet, according to Monterey County. One acre-foot of water is equal to 325,851 gallons.

  6. California is letting billions of gallons of stormwater wash ...

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    Of the 10 states with the most "untapped potential," California ranks ninth with approximately 2.27 million acre-feet of urban area runoff each year. (An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons ...

  7. Santa Fe County says water supplies will last but buys more ...

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    The cost includes an $80,600 commission to broker Bogle Realty and comes to $36,000 per acre-foot, or about 326,000 gallons.

  8. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    About 2 acre-feet. There must be two spaces 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) wide outside lanes 1 and 8 (in effect, two empty lanes). [ 3 ] The length of 50 metres (164 ft) must be between the touch pads at the end of each lane, if they are used. [ 3 ]

  9. The Biggest Hotels in the World - AOL

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    Inside the resort and casino, visitors will find more than 135,000 square feet of gaming and the 11-acre Mandalay Bay Beach, which includes a lazy river, a 1.6-million-gallon wave pool capable of ...