← Basin trends ·  All gages in this district

Fraser River below Crooked Cr at Tabernash

River gage · FRATABCO · USGS 09033300 · Division 5 · Water District 51 · Grand 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
1998-10-01 → 2026-09-30
Daily values
5,905
Flowing now
37.6 cfs 2026-10-13 14:15, 3.6 h ago
Latest cached reading
40.4 cfs (2026-09-30)
Trend
insufficient data

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
12.5 °C · provisional
2026-10-13 20:15
30 d, 9.2–14.7

Fetched 2026-10-13 21:23 UTC from USGS NWIS (site 09033300). 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 Fraser River below Crooked Cr at Tabernash, water years 1998 to 2026. The measured record is insufficient data at cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.

Loading chart…

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation FRATABCO; recorded station name “FRASER RIVER BLW CROOKED CR AT TABERNASH 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.