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Colorado River near Cameo
River gage · COLCAMCO · USGS 09095500 · Division 5 · Water District 72 · Mesa County
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Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Independent agency measurement · verify at USGS ↗ 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.
The water itself
USGS keeps a sensor here. Latest readings, with the last 30 days of daily means beside each. Provisional: not yet reviewed by USGS, and revised when it is.
Fetched 2026-10-18 18:23 UTC from USGS NWIS (site 09095500). The USGS page has the full sensor record; every Colorado sensor site is listed on one page.
Annual flow & trend
Chart: annual mean flow at Colorado River near Cameo, water years 1933 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at -82.51 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 (5.0).
Seasonal runoff outlook
NRCS calls it even odds that this gage carries at least 255 thousand acre-feetA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year. over 06-01 to 07-31 — 19% of a normal season; almost certainly at least 140, probably not more than 450. Issued 2026-06-01 — the season’s final; new forecasts begin in January.
| 90% chance of at least | 70% chance of at least | 50% chance of at least | 30% chance of at least | 10% chance of at least | Normal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 kAF | 200 kAF | 255 kAF | 340 kAF | 450 kAF | 1360 kAF |
The row is one season as a range of odds (exceedanceA forecast stated as odds of AT LEAST this much: the 90% exceedance value is a near-floor the river beats nine years in ten, the 10% value a near-ceiling it reaches one year in ten, and 50% is even odds -- as likely to come in above as below. values): the left end is a near-floor the river beats nine years in ten, the right a near-ceiling. How to read these numbers → Forecast by the NRCS National Water and Climate Center; shown beside the gage’s own record, which is what it is verified against on the report card.
Record-adjusted April benchmark: re-anchoring NRCS’s April number (820 kAF) on this river’s own history moves it to 385 kAF; the river delivered 524. Computed by this site, shown only where it beats NRCS in replay (32% → 17% typical miss over 59 seasons). Method →
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation COLCAMCO; recorded station name “COLORADO RIVER NEAR CAMEO, 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.