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Charles H. Boustead Tunnel

Transbasin diversion gage · BOUTUNCO · USGS 09077160 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Lake County

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What this gage meters

This is not a natural stream record. The Charles H. Boustead Tunnel moves water from Fryingpan River and Hunter Creek collection (Div 5) into Turquoise Lake, Arkansas River basin (Div 2), operated by Southeastern Colorado WCD / USBR (Fryingpan-Arkansas) — so this record is a ledger of those deliveries. Trends here reflect operational and demand decisions, not the basin's hydrology, and the basin trends page marks it accordingly (⇆). All of Colorado's curated transbasin diversions are collected at /transbasin.

The record

Period of record
1971-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
20,003
Latest cached reading
3.8 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
increasing, 6.61 cfs/decade (8.9% 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation BOUTUNCO; recorded station name “CHARLES H. BOUSTEAD TUNNEL”; 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.