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Cherry Creek near Melvin

River gage · CHEMELCO · USGS 06712500 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Arapahoe County

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The record

Period of record
1939-09-30 → 1984-08-31
Daily values
16,015
Latest cached reading
35.0 cfs (1984-08-31)
Trend
decreasing, -6.13 cfs/decade (-74.3% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1949

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 Cherry Creek near Melvin, water years 1939 to 1984. The measured record is decreasing at -6.13 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1949. 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation CHEMELCO; recorded station name “CHERRY CREEK NEAR MELVIN, 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.