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South Platte River at Cooper Bridge near Balzac

River gage · PLABALCO · USGS 06759910 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Morgan County

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The record

Period of record
1987-10-01 → 2026-08-12
Daily values
14,094
Latest cached reading
185.0 cfs (2026-08-12)
Trend
no trend, -20.71 cfs/decade (-6.0% 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

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (4.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation PLABALCO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AT COOPER BRIDGE NEAR BALZAC”; 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.