A companion project, the West Ditch could provide 1100 miner's inches.

The definition of a miner's inch varies by location.

The miner's inch is a unit of flow in terms of volume per unit time, usually in relation to flow of water.

The miner's inch is a method of measuring the amount of flow a particular water supply system (such as a flume or sluice) is capable of supplying.

The city owns first and second Prior-appropriation water rights for a total of 550 miner's inches of the streamflow, amounting to about 8.9 million gallons of water per day.

The project was built to serve the Osceola Gravel Mining Company's placer gold mine, which required enormous quantities of water to blast apart gold-bearing gravel and rubble deposits, and was capable of delivering 2500 miner's inches of water.