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Colorado River near Dotsero

River gage · COLDOTCO · USGS 09070500 · Division 5 · Water District 53 · Eagle County

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The record

Period of record
1940-12-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
31,264
Latest cached reading
1420.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -2.13 cfs/decade

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).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation COLDOTCO; recorded station name “COLORADO RIVER NEAR DOTSERO, 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.