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MightyMoe

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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?

Posted : October 10, 2023 7:41 am

Glenn Borkenhagen

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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.

Posted : October 10, 2023 8:57 am

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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.

This site is great!!!

Posted : October 10, 2023 9:43 am