Water over run on Dam, 80000 litres second...

[Mortimer Firewood]

Dam thats a lot of water

[scraggs]

It is powering a turbine. The 80km3 is what's going down the sluice when there's more water than needed.

 

Not enough obviously, put more in

[Metsaman]

Not enough obviously, put more in

 

This time a year it is very much water on moving because snow melting everywhere and that's why they have to run down to dam...

[roseyweb]

I've been in the hydro plant at kielder water it's pretty cool hearing all the water rushing past

[TGB]

Just under 3,000 cubes. Could be worth kayaking down stream. But you need more for a good run in a canoe.

[Metsaman]

I've been in the hydro plant at kielder water it's pretty cool hearing all the water rushing past

 

Yes, quite noisy sound ..

[Metsaman]

Just under 3,000 cubes. Could be worth kayaking down stream. But you need more for a good run in a canoe.

 

That makes 8000 cubes or what You mean. ..

[TGB]

Cubic feet - as in a standard notional measure of flow. As seen from the bankside by a paddler, e.g. "It's running 800 cubes." That is to say, the total volume of water that passes a stationary bankside observer in one second, would be 800cu ft./sec.

Edited May 4, 2015 by TGB

[Metsaman]

Cubic feet - as in a standard notional measure of flow. As seen from the bankside by a paddler, e.g. "It's running 800 cubes." That is to say, the total volume of water that passes a stationary bankside observer in one second, would be 800cu ft./sec.

 

80000 litres is about 80 cubic feet.

[TGB]

The "800" was as an example of what might be said from one paddlers to another. Not a direct conversion from 80,0003³ Ltrs. But if we're being pedantic:

80,000³ Ltrs. = 2825.173³ ft.

 

80³ ft. = 2265.348³ Ltrs.