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Old 10-30-2020, 02:38 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Slickcraft View Post
The lake is about 71 sq miles. One inch of water results in about 164,947,200 cubic feet of water. At 62.4 lbs per cubic foot that one inch of water would weigh about: 10 billion pounds.

There are a lot of boats on the lake but, well, not that many. So my guess is that you would be hard pressed to measure any difference.
Yep, there would have to be 2.5 million boats at an average of 2 tons each removed to make an inch difference.
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