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Fountain Creek near Colorado Springs

River gage · FOUNCOCO · USGS 07103700 · Division 2 · Water District 10 · El Paso County

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The record

Period of record
1958-04-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
24,934
Latest cached reading
5.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
increasing, 0.89 cfs/decade (6.8% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1978

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 FOUNCOCO; recorded station name “FOUNTAIN CREEK NEAR COLORADO SPRINGS, 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.