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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Water Looks Good Friday, Saturday, probably Sunday

Chili Bar is currently full and spilling, and SMUD projects releasing
at least 1100 AF each of the next three days. If that happens we
should have decent flows on October 13, 14, & 15.

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2 Comments:

Blogger Howard said...

what units are AF?

Fri Oct 13, 09:15:00 AM  
Blogger Bill Center said...

Hi Howard - AF is Acre Foot (or Acre Feet) - about a third of a million gallons. The relationship between an Acre Foot and a Cubic Foot per Second (CFS) is:
1 CFS flowing for 24 hours will yield two AF.
A useful extension of that conversion for river runners is that it takes 100 AF of water to supply 1200 cfs for one hour.

Hope this helps.
Bill

Fri Oct 13, 03:23:00 PM  

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