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Colorado River near Colorado-Utah State Line

River gage · COLUTACO · USGS 09163500 · Division 5 · Water District 72 · Mesa County

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The record

Period of record
1951-05-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
27,461
Latest cached reading
1930.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -1.27 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation COLUTACO; recorded station name “COLORADO RIVER NEAR COLORADO-UTAH STATE LINE”; 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.