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McElmo Creek near Colorado-Utah State Line

River gage · MCELMSCO · USGS 09372000 · Division 7 · Water District 32 · Montezuma County

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The record

Period of record
1951-03-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
27,496
Latest cached reading
0.5 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -5.01 cfs/decade
Pettitt changepoint
~2000

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 (3.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation MCELMSCO; recorded station name “MCELMO CREEK NEAR COLORADO-UTAH STATE LINE”; 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.