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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 ...
≡ 1 ⁄ 200 in = 1.27 ... 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 ... gallon (US dry)
cubic feet = 3 379 200 acre-feet = 4.168 181 825 440 579 584 cubic kilometres: ≈ 916 871 822 916 imperial gallons: ≈ 1 101 117 140 000 US liquid gallons
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.
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!).
The cost includes an $80,600 commission to broker Bogle Realty and comes to $36,000 per acre-foot, or about 326,000 gallons. ... Choman called $36,000 per acre-foot a "very fair market price" for ...
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 importing water from outside the county. [42] As of April 2015, San Diego County imported 90% of its water. [13]
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 ...