04-23-2023, 10:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-23-2023, 10:30 PM by joeryan80481.)
The fence ended up in Rock Lake by the end of April 12, and it must have been blown across the lake -- the next time I saw it three days later, the fence was on the eastern shore. Some time after that, it was apparently removed from the eastern shore.
If the purpose of the fence was to retain snow and increase water input to Rock Lake, here's a rough estimate of how much water might have been added to the lake. The snow pile on the leeward side of the fence was about 150 ft wide and maybe 10 ft across by 3 feet high at best, so that's 4,500 cu ft of snow. It seems that a typical ratio of snow to water is 10:1, so that's about 450 cu ft of water. The area of Rock Lake is about 3 acres, which is about 131,000 sq ft. Dividing that 450 cu ft of water over 131,000 sq ft means that about 0.0034 ft, or 0.041 inches, of water was added to the lake -- that's a little less than 1/24 of an inch of water.
If the purpose of the fence was to retain snow and increase water input to Rock Lake, here's a rough estimate of how much water might have been added to the lake. The snow pile on the leeward side of the fence was about 150 ft wide and maybe 10 ft across by 3 feet high at best, so that's 4,500 cu ft of snow. It seems that a typical ratio of snow to water is 10:1, so that's about 450 cu ft of water. The area of Rock Lake is about 3 acres, which is about 131,000 sq ft. Dividing that 450 cu ft of water over 131,000 sq ft means that about 0.0034 ft, or 0.041 inches, of water was added to the lake -- that's a little less than 1/24 of an inch of water.