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South Platte River at Balzac

River gage · PLABAACO · USGS 06760000 · Division 1 · Water District 64 · Morgan County

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The record

Period of record
1917-01-01 → 1987-09-30
Daily values
35,450
Latest cached reading
58.0 cfs (1987-09-30)
Trend
no trend, 17.47 cfs/decade (6.8% of median)

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 South Platte River at Balzac, water years 1917 to 1987. The measured record is no trend at 17.47 cubic feet per second per decade. The underlying yearly values are available as a CSV download linked at the top of this page.

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation PLABAACO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AT BALZAC, 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.