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Left Hand Creek at Hover Road near Longmont

River gage · LEFTHOCO · USGS 06724970 · Division 1 · Water District 5 · Boulder County

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The record

Period of record
2014-03-05 → 2026-08-15
Daily values
4,547
Latest cached reading
0.7 cfs (2026-08-15)
Trend
decreasing, -22.95 cfs/decade (-143.7% of median)

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 LEFTHOCO; recorded station name “LEFT HAND CREEK AT HOVER ROAD NEAR LONGMONT, 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.