Largest lakes & reservoirs in Metropolitan Region, AL by water volume
The estimated volume of water that a lake contains is measured at the lake’s normal elevation. By this measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is Siberia’s Lake Baikal.Water Volume can be measured in acre-feet, in cubic miles, or in cubic kilometers. One acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre (43,560 square feet) to a depth of one foot. One cubic mile equals 3,379,200 acre-feet. One cubic kilometer equals 810,713 acre-feet. 1 acre-foot is equal to 325,851 US gallons. Siberia’s Lake Baikal contains about 6,276,367,740,000,000 gallons of freshwater – nearly 1 million gallons for every living person on earth.
The other – and more widely used – measure of a lake’s size is the lake’s surface acreage. By that measure, the world’s largest freshwater lake is North America’s Lake Superior.
Note: In the United States, an acre foot is a unit of volume used to refer to large-scale bodies of water. It is defined by the volume of water needed to cover 1 acre of surface area to a depth of 1 foot.
You can find many of the the world’s largest lakes (by water volume) on LakeLubbers. Note: For some lakes, the water volume data is unknown or does not apply, so you may see fewer lakes than the total 16 articles we have published for Metropolitan Region, AL lakes.
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Below are lakes within USA > US South Region > Alabama > Metropolitan Region, AL > Compared by water volume. This list does not represent all lakes in Metropolitan Region, AL, only the 16 Metropolitan Region, AL lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name | Water vol. in ac-ft | Lake description |
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Aliceville Lake, AL/MS (Alabama, Metropolitan Region, AL, Mississippi, Pines Region, MS, US South Region, USA) |
60,400 ac-ft | (Also known as Pickensville Lake) Aliceville Lake, known to fishing locals as Pickensville Lake, is one of 10 lakes on the 234-mile man-made Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The Tenn-Tom, … |
Oliver Lake, AL (Alabama, Metropolitan Region, AL, US South Region, USA) |
12,400 ac-ft | (Also known as William Bacon Oliver Lake) Oliver Lake is the smallest of six lakes formed by a series of locks and dams on the Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa in west central (Metropolitan … |
Harris Lake and Lake Nicol (Alabama, Metropolitan Region, AL, US South Region, USA) |
2,742 ac-ft | (Also known as Lake Harris) When the City of Tuscaloosa created Harris Lake and Lake Nicol for water supply, little did city officials realize that these two reservoirs would bec … |