Lake of the Ozarks Aquatic Highway
Currently Being Designed
WHAT IS AN AQUATIC HIGHWAY?
We define an "Aquatic Highway" as a path of
smooth water that is created by the vertical rush of subsurface water filling
the valleys of waves on the surface and spreading outwardly in all directions to
further calm down the rough surface. The path is developed by having many
subsurface aerators placed at least as close together in the line as they are
deep in the water. Extremely fine bubbles using approximately 3 to 4 CFM
of air per minute per square foot of ceramic diffuser are required.
In the case of the Lake of the Ozarks, the diffusers will be
from 75 to 90 feet deep, therefore that far between diffusers in the
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These pages are
very labor intensive to create, so we are showing only a 2-mile
length of both the southbound and northbound paths between Mile 11 and 13.
If we considered that as being typical of the all the highways, there would be
about 184 compressors of 60 horsepower (total compressors of 11,040 hp),
2,530,000 feet of tubing, and 3,266 diffusers.
Note that MILE 11-12 and MILE 12-13 have links to pages of
designs. More links will be added as this project moves forward.
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