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Lake Fork Creek below Sugar Loaf Dam near Leadville

River gage · LFCBSLCO · USGS 07082500 · Division 2 · Water District 11 · Lake County

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The record

Period of record
1969-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
20,731
Latest cached reading
3.7 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -8.82 cfs/decade (-59.7% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1986

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 LFCBSLCO; recorded station name “LAKE FORK CREEK BELOW SUGAR LOAF DAM NEAR LEADVILLE”; operated by DWR. 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.