Hydrohistorian
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
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.