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Loutsenhizer Arroyo at Highway 50 near Olathe

River gage · LOUARRCO · USGS 383926107593001 · Division 4 · Water District 41 · Montrose 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
2014-10-01 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
4,362
Flowing now
93.7 cfs 2026-10-25 00:00, 2.4 h ago
Latest cached reading
66.7 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
no trend, -10.58 cfs/decade (-20.9% 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.

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
11.4 °C · provisional
2026-10-25 06:00
30 d, 11.7–15.7
Specific conductance
1450 µS/cm · provisional
2026-10-25 06:00
28 d, 1150.0–2040.0

Fetched 2026-10-25 06:22 UTC from USGS NWIS (site 383926107593001). 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 Loutsenhizer Arroyo at Highway 50 near Olathe, water years 2014 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at -10.58 cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation LOUARRCO; recorded station name “LOUTSENHIZER ARROYO AT HWY 50 NEAR OLATHE, 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.