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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
governing water rights.|
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