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Bear Creek at Morrison

River gage · BCRMORCO · USGS 06710500 · Division 1 · Water District 9 · Jefferson County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · USGS monitoring location ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Independent agency measurement · verify at USGS ↗ Source Our computation, no independent reference · computed here from the screened record

Two different numbers, deliberately: Flowing now is raw 15-minute telemetry, provisional and unreviewed. Latest cached reading is the end of the verified daily record. They are never merged, and the verified series is the one the trend is computed on.

The record

Period of record
1900-04-30 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
49,428
Flowing now
9.99 cfs 2026-10-12 23:45, 1.8 h ago
Latest cached reading
11.5 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
decreasing, -2.71 cfs/decade (-6.0% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1949

Readings come from the weekly-refreshed cache, never fetched live — the date beside the value says exactly how fresh it is. The live gage is one click up.

Annual flow & trend

Chart: annual mean flow at Bear Creek at Morrison, water years 1900 to 2026. The measured record is decreasing at -2.71 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1949. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BCRMORCO; recorded station name “BEAR CREEK AT MORRISON”; operated by DWR. Daily flows from the DWR HydroBase snapshot plus CDSS REST updates, refreshed on the weekly cycle. Trend statistics are Mann-Kendall (Hamed-Rao corrected) with Sen's slope in native cfs, the same numbers as the basin Trends tab.