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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. Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant - Wikipedia

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    [40] [41] This is equivalent to 43 million gallons per day (mgd), or about 86% of the plant's output. The cost of water from the plant will be $100 to $200 more per acre-foot than recycled water (approximately 0.045 cents per gallon), $1,000 to $1,100 more than reservoir water (approx. 0.32 cents per gallon), but $100 to $200 less than ...

  4. 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!).

  5. 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. ... in 2022 and can treat up to 500,000 gallons of water per day, Romo ...

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

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    The census-defined urban area includes L.A., Long Beach and Anaheim, and experiences approximately 490,000 acre-feet of runoff each year, or roughly 437 million gallons per day. Read more: Newsom ...

  7. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    cubic foot per second ft 3 /s ≡ 1 ft 3 /s = 0.028 316 846 592 m 3 /s: cubic inch per minute in 3 /min ≡ 1 in 3 /min = 2.731 177 3 × 10 −7 m 3 /s cubic inch per second in 3 /s ≡ 1 in 3 /s = 1.638 7064 × 10 −5 m 3 /s: cubic metre per second (SI unit) m 3 /s ≡ 1 m 3 /s = 1 m 3 /s gallon (US fluid) per day GPD [citation needed] ≡ 1 ...

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

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    One acre-foot of water is equal to 325,851 gallons. Water spills from Lake Nacimiento on Jan. 20, 2023, after the atmospheric river storms dumped billions of gallons of water into the reservoir.