Determine Volume of Water for Treatment

Before a Body of Water can be treated with the AquaClean, the volume in gallons or cubic meters must be calculated. Often, it is difficult to determine the actual volume, but a reasonable estimate is all you really need. If you don't know the volume, then compute an estimate by first calculating the volume in acre-feet and then converting to gallons.

For example, if you know that you have a Body of Water that is two acres in surface area and the average depth is five (5) feet, then the acre-feet would be ten (10). This is determined by multiplying the two (2) acres of surface area times the five (5) foot depth.

Or, you may have a Body of Water where you don't know the surface area in acres. In this case, you need to measure the approximate length and width. As an example, lets say that the pond is 200 feet long by 150 feet wide. And, the average depth is estimated to be eight (8) feet.

• First, calculate the square-feet of the water surface. In this case, the calculation is 200 times 150, which computes to be 30,000 square feet.
  
• An acre is 42,500 square feet. The surface is 0.705 (30,000 divided by 42,500) of an acre.
  
• If the average depth is eight (8) feet, then the volume of the pond is 5.64 acre-feet (0.705 times 8).
  
• Multiply the acre-feet by 330,000 gallons to determine overall pond volume to be treated. In this example, the total volume is 1.82 million gallons (333,000 gallons x 5.64 acre-feet).