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Sure!

Of course, to make the fluid ratios correct, the pond would have to contain about 803 million gallons of water.

That's about 18,450 acre-feet for those who use that term for water volumes.

(Here's the source of the Gulf's volume in case I screwed up my math again! Fortunately, all I'm working with is gallons and quarts.)

Addendum: If I calculated properly (and the units get a bit wooly now) the spill was more like nine drops of oil in an Olympic swimming pool (660,000 U.S. gallons).

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