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Cottonwood Creek near Buena Vista

River gage · COCRBVCO · USGS 07089250 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Chaffee County

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The record

Period of record
1970-11-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
18,863
Latest cached reading
1.8 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, 0.38 cfs/decade (1.5% of median)

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 (3.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation COCRBVCO; recorded station name “COTTONWOOD CREEK NEAR BUENA VISTA”; 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.