This is found in an easement grant, it's not important for the work I'm doing, but I'm very curious:
"Together with a water right of 500 inches of the waters of XYZ Creek"
I hadn't seen water volumes described that way before, the best I can think of calculating it is 0.3 cfs of water. That does fit with volumes in the small stream created by the local creek.
One engineer I talked to said he had seen that description and was told it's from the old underground mining days.
Anyone here know the calculation for water described that way?
May want to take a look at the Wikipedia article on "Miner's inch", which says the definition varied across the jurisdictions.
More from placer and hydraulic mining than lode mining.
GB
Thanks for the info Glenn.
Working through an article it's "the quantity of water that will flow in one minute through a 1 inch square in a plank 2 inches thick under a head of 6.5 inches to the center of the orifice. A miner's inch is approximately equivalent to 1.2 cubic feet or 9 gallons per minute" (from, a bing article). Or doing the math 10 cfs for 500 inches.
I've become very adept at estimating the cfs of a stream and that's more water than I've seen in this one. I've jumped and stepped over it on a few occasions and it's not running 10cfs.
I'm also seeing that the number varies per state.
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