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Cherry Creek at Denver

River gage · CHEDENCO · USGS 06713500 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Denver County

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The record

Period of record
1942-08-11 → 2026-05-20
Daily values
25,746
Latest cached reading
121.0 cfs (2026-05-20)
Trend
increasing, 3.71 cfs/decade (13.8% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1982

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 CHEDENCO; recorded station name “CHERRY CREEK AT DENVER, 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.