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Main Elk Creek near New Castle
River gage · MELKNECO · USGS 09086470 · Division 5 · Water District 39 · Garfield County
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The record
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
Chart: annual mean flow at Main Elk Creek near New Castle, water years 1990 to 1998. The measured record is insufficient data at cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (5).
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation MELKNECO; recorded station name “MAIN ELK CREEK NEAR NEW CASTLE, 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.