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Fountain Creek at Pueblo

River gage · FOUPUECO · USGS 07106500 · Division 2 · Water District 10 · Pueblo County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · USGS monitoring location ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Independent agency measurement · verify at USGS ↗ Source Our computation, no independent reference · computed here from the screened record

Two different numbers, deliberately: Flowing now is raw 15-minute telemetry, provisional and unreviewed. Latest cached reading is the end of the verified daily record. They are never merged, and the verified series is the one the trend is computed on.

The record

Period of record
1922-01-01 → 2024-10-31
Daily values
30,130
Flowing now
107.0 cfs last reported 2024-12-05 20:15 — gone quiet
Latest cached reading
148.0 cfs (2024-10-31)
Trend
increasing, 15.48 cfs/decade (15.7% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1979

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.

The water itself

USGS keeps a sensor here. Latest readings, with the last 30 days of daily means beside each. Provisional: not yet reviewed by USGS, and revised when it is.

Water temperature
13.1 °C · provisional
2026-10-15 02:15
28 d, 16.1–22.3
Specific conductance
1150 µS/cm · provisional
2026-10-15 02:15
24 d, 967.0–1180.0

Fetched 2026-10-15 03:22 UTC from USGS NWIS (site 07106500). The USGS page has the full sensor record; every Colorado sensor site is listed on one page.

Annual flow & trend

Chart: annual mean flow at Fountain Creek at Pueblo, water years 1922 to 2024. The measured record is increasing at 15.48 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1979. 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 FOUPUECO; recorded station name “FOUNTAIN CREEK AT PUEBLO, 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.