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McElmo Creek above Alkali Canyon, near Cortez

River gage · MCELMACO · USGS 09371420 · Division 7 · Water District 32 · Montezuma County

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The record

Period of record
1972-10-01 → 1986-09-30
Daily values
5,113
Latest cached reading
32.0 cfs (1986-09-30)
Trend
no trend, 50.31 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 MCELMACO; recorded station name “MCELMO CREEK ABOVE ALKALI CANYON, NR CORTEZ, 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.