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Big Dry Creek below C-470 at Highlands Ranch

River gage · BIGDHICO · USGS 06710150 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Douglas County

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The record

Period of record
2003-10-01 → 2026-05-20
Daily values
8,266
Latest cached reading
2.4 cfs (2026-05-20)
Trend
no trend, -0.46 cfs/decade (-16.7% of median)

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

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (user supplied).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BIGDHICO; recorded station name “BIG DRY CREEK BELOW C-470 AT HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO”; operated by USGS. 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.