--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "worldbefree22001" <krajewski.sa@...>
wrote:
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> From: "Susan George" Subject: [vpFREE] Lake Tahoe
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> > Little off subject but does anyone have any good info on Lake
Tahoe.
>
>
> It's very big. It has lots of water. The "natural rim" of the
lake is 6223
> feet above sea level. That is the lowest level at which water
will
continue
> to spill over the dam at Tahoe City and into the Truckee River,
the only
> outlet of the lake. Up to one-tenth inch of water, or 330 million
gallons,
> can evaporate from the lake on a summer day. Remarkably, each
half-
foot of
> lake level represents over 20 billion gallons of water, enough to
supply 105
> million people with their average daily needs! The average level
of the lake
> is 6225 feet above sea level. The highest recorded level was
6,231.26 feet
> on July 14 -18, 1907. The lowest level ever recorded was 6220.26
feet on
> November 30, 1992. The maximum level now allowed by law is 6229.1
feet. Data
> courtesy of the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological
Survey. If this
> is not the information that you are looking for, you may want to
expound on
> the parameters of your question. AFAIK, there is no surcharge for
extra
> words used in posts on vpFREE.
> Nudge
>
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