Have you ever crunched the numbers before, though? Napkin math tells me that if it rained exactly 1” of precipitation over a square mile, that would be enough water to fill 2.19 Olympic swimming pools. A semi small mountain stream that moves 24 cubic inches of water at 3 miles an hour will drain those two swimming pools of water in just 73 hours. We get around 50 inches of rain a year give or take around here. Unless my math is just way off, which is highly likely, it just doesn’t seem like a logical conclusion that the source for these two streams are just seepage springs.
Have you ever crunched the numbers before, though? Napkin math tells me that if it rained exactly 1” of precipitation over a square mile, that would be enough water to fill 2.19 Olympic swimming pools. A semi small mountain stream that moves 24 cubic inches of water at 3 miles an hour will drain those two swimming pools of water in just 73 hours. We get around 50 inches of rain a year give or take around here. Unless my math is just way off, which is highly likely, it just doesn’t seem like a logical conclusion that the source for these two streams are just seepage springs.
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