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Michigan Ditch at Cameron Pass

Transbasin diversion gage · MICDCPCO · USGS 06746000 · Division 1 · Water District 3 · Larimer County

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What this gage meters

This is not a natural stream record. The Michigan Ditch moves water from Michigan River, North Platte basin at Cameron Pass (Div 6) into Joe Wright Creek, Cache la Poudre (Div 1), operated by City of Fort Collins — so this record is a ledger of those deliveries. Trends here reflect operational and demand decisions, not the basin's hydrology, and the basin trends page marks it accordingly (⇆). All of Colorado's curated transbasin diversions are collected at /transbasin.

The record

Period of record
1932-04-30 → 2026-08-14
Daily values
35,384
Latest cached reading
0.0 cfs (2026-08-14)
Trend
increasing, 0.66 cfs/decade (21.5% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1986

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 MICDCPCO; recorded station name “MICHIGAN DITCH AT CAMERON PASS”; operated by DWR. 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.