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Big Salt Wash at Fruita

River gage · BIGFRUCO · USGS 09153270 · Division 5 · Water District 72 · Mesa County

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The record

Period of record
1973-03-01 → 2024-11-20
Daily values
2,923
Latest cached reading
19.9 cfs (2024-11-20)
Trend
no trend, -0.74 cfs/decade

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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BIGFRUCO; recorded station name “BIG SALT WASH AT FRUITA, 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.