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Blue River at Blue River

River gage · BLUABLCO · USGS 09046490 · Division 5 · Water District 36 · Summit 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
1983-10-01 → 2026-09-29
Daily values
15,705
Flowing now
10.9 cfs 2026-10-19 05:45, 2.5 h ago
Latest cached reading
12.7 cfs (2026-09-29)
Trend
no trend, -1.2 cfs/decade (-4.4% 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

Chart: annual mean flow at Blue River at Blue River, water years 1983 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at -1.2 cubic feet per second per decade. 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 BLUABLCO; recorded station name “BLUE RIVER AT BLUE RIVER, 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.