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| Water Rights and Water Issues in the Western States > Water Calculators > A Look at Miners Inches A Look at Miners Inches
As water demand increased with the development of large-scale
mining technologies and the development of irrigation uses, the
miner's inch became an inadequate unit of measurement for flow
rates, and was replaced by cubic feet per second.
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A miner's
inch is not a measure of length, but it is the
measurement of the rate of water flow in a miner's sluice.
Flow was measured by a hole one inch square with a head of one
inch. Generally, one miner's inch is a flow of 1.5 cubic feet
per minute You will find references to "miner's inches" in old
water right filings and notices, as well as older decrees
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