Hydrohistorian
Big Thompson River below Lake Estes
River gage · BTBLESCO · USGS 06735500 · Division 1 · Water District 4 · Larimer County
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The record
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
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (5.0).
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation BTBLESCO; recorded station name “BIG THOMPSON RIVER BELOW LAKE ESTES”; operated by NWBOR. 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.