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Colorado River near Fruita

River gage · COLFRUCO · USGS 09153000 · Division 5 · Water District 72 · Mesa County

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The record

Period of record
1911-01-01 → 1923-09-30
Daily values
4,656
Latest cached reading
4100.0 cfs (1923-09-30)
Trend
no trend, 283.12 cfs/decade (3.1% 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

Chart: annual mean flow at Colorado River near Fruita, water years 1911 to 1923. The measured record is no trend at 283.12 cubic feet per second per decade. 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 COLFRUCO; recorded station name “COLORADO RIVER NEAR FRUITA, 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.