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South Platte River at Denver

River gage · PLADENCO · USGS 06714000 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Denver County

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The record

Period of record
1895-06-30 → 2026-05-19
Daily values
47,805
Latest cached reading
234.0 cfs (2026-05-19)
Trend
no trend, -3.49 cfs/decade (-1.2% 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 (user supplied).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation PLADENCO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AT DENVER”; 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.