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Cherry Creek at the Mouth near Red Mesa
River gage · CHEREDCO · Division 7 · Water District 33 · La Plata County
Live gage at DWR ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ 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
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 at the Mouth near Red Mesa, water years 1988 to 2026. The measured record is decreasing at -1.65 cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (3).
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation CHEREDCO; recorded station name “CHERRY CREEK AT THE MOUTH NEAR RED MESA”; 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.