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Lightner Creek near Durango

River gage · LIGHTNCO · USGS 09362000 · Division 7 · Water District 30 · La Plata County

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The record

Period of record
1927-10-01 → 1949-09-30
Daily values
8,036
Latest cached reading
2.8 cfs (1949-09-30)
Trend
no trend, 1.94 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation LIGHTNCO; recorded station name “LIGHTNER CREEK NEAR DURANGO, 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.