Acre-foot (Noun)
Meaning
The volume of water that would cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot; 43,560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic meters.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The lake's storage capacity is approximately 250 acre-feet of water during times of heavy rainfall.
- In an average year, the aqueduct supplies over 50,000 acre-feet of water to the urban areas downstream.
- For example, in order to have sufficient supplies to sustain through multiyear droughts, storage targets would typically aim for storing more than one or even several times a hydrologically estimated water "gap" such as three 450 acre-feet allocations from those lower drainage local landowning supply priority demands downstream.
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