Surface Area

[rschaff]

I need to calculate the water surface area of a cooling pond that is 5 miles by 3 miles. There is a 3 foot elevation difference from North to South. There are multiple earthen beams running the entire length of the project extruding 8 feet above the water surface. I have created a volume surface to calculate the volume and now they need the water surface area to calculate evaporation. I am running CD 2011

[mjfarrell]

simply go the the properties of the surface that is involved
select the surface
rt click>>surface properties
go to the last tab (Statistics) get your 2d or 3d area from the information shown there