To: rktman
"...the Oroville Dam can hold 3.5 million acre-feet of water..."
"...in February 2017 and engineers began opening eight huge spillway gates to allow 100,000 acre-feet per second to race down the face of the dam..." So they can empty the lake in under a minute? I think somebody got their per-seconds wrong. Maybe 100,000 gallons per second? Anyone here know?
16 posted on
03/18/2019 11:05:07 AM PDT by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
To: TangoLimaSierra
Thinkin it would take longer than that if the whole face let go.
20 posted on
03/18/2019 11:14:50 AM PDT by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: TangoLimaSierra
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Should read 100 acre-feet/sec.
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25 posted on
03/18/2019 11:18:10 AM PDT by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: TangoLimaSierra
An “acre-foot” of water is enough to cover one acre of land to a depth of twelve inches. That is apparently 325,851 gallons.
71 posted on
03/18/2019 1:06:42 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: TangoLimaSierra
They probably mean CFS or cubic feet per second.
125 posted on
03/18/2019 6:02:04 PM PDT by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: TangoLimaSierra
It usually reads cubic feet per second so it would be 100000 cubic feet per second
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