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Elk Creek at New Castle

River gage · ELKNEWCO · USGS 09087500 · Division 5 · Water District 39 · Garfield County

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The record

Period of record
1922-04-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
4,679
Latest cached reading
3.2 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -17.94 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).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation ELKNEWCO; recorded station name “ELK CREEK AT NEW CASTLE, 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.