 Really rough science…….. In conjunction with our trip with Thomas Hawley, we took the students outside the school and tried to do a snowpack measurement using a vinyl sleeve and a five gallon bucket. We captured the snow in the sleeve and then allowed the snow to melt in the bucket overnight. The next day we measure how much water we had in the bucket. 1.38L of melted snow in the 4” VINYL SLEEVE Since you need a 3x3 grid to make a square foot you would take 1.38L and times it by 9 to equal 12.42L of water in a square foot as of 3/11 at Molly Ockett Middle School 1 ACRE HAS 43560 SQUARE FEET 12.42.5L of water IN A SQUARE FOOT X 43560 sq ft = 541,015L of water IN AN ACRE M.O.M.S. HAS 36 ACRES 541,015L X 36 = 19,476,540 L (that’s 5,145,157 gallons) SINCE THERE ARE 640 ACRES IN SQUARE MILE AND WE KNOW THAT CURRENTLY THERE ARE 19,476,540L IN AN ACRE 640 X 19,476,540 = 12,464,985,600L PER ACRE IN THE TOWN OF FRYEBURG THERE ARE 65.89 SQUARE MILES 65.89 X 12,464,985,600= 821,317,901,184L (that’s 216,969,235,300.11 gallons) Last year we had 103,835,560,168.66 gallons |
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