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Clear Creek near Lawson

River gage · CLELAWCO · USGS 06716500 · Division 1 · Water District 7 · Clear Creek County

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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

Period of record
1946-03-29 → 2026-10-01
Daily values
33,155
Flowing now
37.0 cfs 2026-10-16 08:45, 2.2 h ago
Latest cached reading
40.7 cfs (2026-10-01)
Trend
decreasing, -5.39 cfs/decade (-3.9% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1962

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 Clear Creek near Lawson, water years 1946 to 2026. The measured record is decreasing at -5.39 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1962. 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 CLELAWCO; recorded station name “CLEAR CREEK NEAR LAWSON, 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.