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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 ...
Legally defined as 1.033 English feet in 1859 ≈ 0.314 858 m: foot (Clarke's) (H) ... acre-foot: ac ft ≡ 1 ac x 1 ft = 43 560 cu ft ... ≡ 1 gal/min = 6.309 019 ...
1 acre⋅ft: acre-foot: ... to British 1824 definition of 1 imperial gallon (4.5 L; 1.2 US ... swimming pools, etc., is usually stated in gallons or cubic feet ...
(An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons — enough water to supply up to three homes for a year). ... state agencies permitted more than 1.2 million acre-feet of groundwater recharge — including ...
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
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 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.
22,956.841139 acre feet 6.228835459×10 9 imperial gallons Alternatively, 35.32 tmcft = 1 cubic kilometer (km 3 ) is the standard unit used by Central Water Commission of Government of India for reporting gross and effective storage capacities of dams in India in National Register of Large Dams (NRLD).