Surface area of a concrete drainage canal intersection

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I am trying to measure a concrete structure to compute the surface area.
I have included a sketch of the structure with the dimensions that I have measured. This is part of a drainage canal bank where two canals intersect. The banks along both canals are paved with concrete. I tried to just average the slant dimensions and average the lengths of the top and bottom arcs. Then, I simply multiplied them together to get an area. I feel this is inaccurate. I then tried to stretch it out into a trapezoid, but I feel this is even less accurate. Any help?


Hand-drawn sketch of a curved wedge-shaped concrete panel, with labels R 35 and R 60 for the arc radii, straight sides marked slant 33.6', slant 33.5', and slant 33.4', and arc lengths 24.9' and 47.8'.
 
also, the horizontal dimension is 32.5', and vertical dimension from top to bottom is 10.5' roughly...if that helps any.