Water conservation and outreach continue as the collective Town of Yountville fall short of its conservation goal of 20%. The current outreach effort is focused on educating people on the actual amount of water that is in an “acre-foot of water” and how much it is that we all need to conserve.
For perspective, there are 325,928 gallons of water in one Acre-Foot. The amount that we need conserved this year is 100 Acre-Feet which is equal to 32,592,800 gallons (35 ½ million gallons). For size and scale, a 20 ft wide x 40 ft long by 6 ft deep swimming pool holds +/- 32,500 gallons, so the Town needs to conserve +/-1,000 swimming pools worth of water in one year’s time. Let’s make it happen.