Isn't Dallas also fixing to get a pipeline for water from Lake Palestine ?

I kinda like the low water, It gangs the fish up.

Go back and read my post....then it might make more sense.

I almost made a fool out of myself trying to make a fool of you....sorry for what I almost did!

Your post clearly reads 3-4" and I almost jumped on the 3-4' misread. Anyway, read this below and see how little effect filling the pipe will actually have on the water levels.

I think your engineer friend exaggerated a little, although 3-4 INCHES isn�t that much. Once again, for everyone who decided not to take upper level math in high school�..

Let�s state the knowns: there are 325,851.427 gallons in an acre of water at a depth of 1 foot (acre foot). Since Lake Conroe is 22,000 acres, that would give you over 7 billion gallons if you took 1 foot of water from the entire lake. Let's also conservatively assume the 60" (5 feet) pipe to run for 20 miles (105,600 feet). I'm sure the actual run would be shorter, but let's stick with 20 miles for now.

Now for the fun part...you know the math part. The formula for the volume of a cylinder is measured as follows: V = pi X r^2 X H. In this situation, that would read as V = (3.14) X (2.5 ft)^2 X 105,600ft. This would give us a volume of 2,073,451 cu. ft. of water in the 20 mile long 60� pipe. Since 1 cu. ft. = 7.48 gallons, we would actually only have 15,510,492.81 gallons in the ENTIRE 20 mile long pipe.

How does this translate to how much the lake will drop? Since we know how much water is in 1 foot of the entire 22,000 acre lake (7 billion gal), we can do a little more math to see that 15+ million gallons would drop the lake EXACTLY .002 feet. One inch is .083 ft and proof that your engineer friend was spouting off a little exaggeration.

The reason I typed up all this was not to be a "Mr. smarty pants", but show everyone that not everything we hear is correct. The people who are in charge of supplying drinking water to the populations of our cities have a greater responsibility to them than to property owners around the lakes or to the fishermen who use them. Now for the record, My family has some property around Fork and I use Fork often, but we are simply using water that doesn't belong to us.

I almost made a fool out of myself trying to make a fool of you....sorry for what I almost did!

Your post clearly reads 3-4" and I almost jumped on the 3-4' misread. Anyway, read this below and see how little effect filling the pipe will actually have on the water levels.

I think your engineer friend exaggerated a little, although 3-4 INCHES isn�t that much. Once again, for everyone who decided not to take upper level math in high school�..

Let�s state the knowns: there are 325,851.427 gallons in an acre of water at a depth of 1 foot (acre foot). Since Lake Conroe is 22,000 acres, that would give you over 7 billion gallons if you took 1 foot of water from the entire lake. Let's also conservatively assume the 60" (5 feet) pipe to run for 20 miles (105,600 feet). I'm sure the actual run would be shorter, but let's stick with 20 miles for now.

Now for the fun part...you know the math part. The formula for the volume of a cylinder is measured as follows: V = pi X r^2 X H. In this situation, that would read as V = (3.14) X (2.5 ft)^2 X 105,600ft. This would give us a volume of 2,073,451 cu. ft. of water in the 20 mile long 60� pipe. Since 1 cu. ft. = 7.48 gallons, we would actually only have 15,510,492.81 gallons in the ENTIRE 20 mile long pipe.

How does this translate to how much the lake will drop? Since we know how much water is in 1 foot of the entire 22,000 acre lake (7 billion gal), we can do a little more math to see that 15+ million gallons would drop the lake EXACTLY .002 feet. One inch is .083 ft and proof that your engineer friend was spouting off a little exaggeration.

The reason I typed up all this was not to be a "Mr. smarty pants", but show everyone that not everything we hear is correct. The people who are in charge of supplying drinking water to the populations of our cities have a greater responsibility to them than to property owners around the lakes or to the fishermen who use them. Now for the record, My family has some property around Fork and I use Fork often, but we are simply using water that doesn't belong to us.