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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 ...
(An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons — enough water to supply up to three homes for a year). ... this through a number of projects. During the 2023 water ... is to capture 300,000 acre-feet of ...
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!).
About 16.5 million acre-feet (20.4 km 3) of water entering the Delta in a typical year flows through the Delta into San Francisco Bay, including 6.3 million acre-feet (7.8 km 3) in governmentally mandated environmental flows; 22.4 million acre-feet (27.6 km 3) is used for other environmental purposes, and 1.6 million acre-feet (2.0 km 3 ...
The cost includes an $80,600 commission to broker Bogle Realty and comes to $36,000 per acre-foot, or about 326,000 gallons. ... It opened in 2022 and can treat up to 500,000 gallons of water per ...
By 2050, California is expected to lose between 4.6 and 9 million acre-feet of its annual water supply. In other words, by 2050 at the latest, Californians would lose access to a volume of water ...
CRA pumping expanded from about 16,500 acre-feet (20,400,000 m 3) of water in 1950 to about 1,029,000 acre-feet (1.269 × 10 9 m 3) by 1960. On August 9, 1962, the Metropolitan set an all-time delivery record of 1,316,000,000 gallons of water in just a 24-hour period. [citation needed]
The state saw 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge in the water year ending in September, and an 8.7 million acre-feet increase in groundwater storage, California’s Department ...