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La Plata River at La Plata, Nm

River gage · LAPLAPNM · USGS 09367000 · Division 7 · Water District 33

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The record

Period of record
2002-12-17 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
8,593
Latest cached reading
0.9 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -265.3 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 (3).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation LAPLAPNM; recorded station name “LA PLATA RIVER AT LA PLATA, NM”; 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.