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South Platte River at Littleton

River gage · PLALITCO · USGS 06710000 · Division 1 · Water District 8 · Arapahoe County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · USGS monitoring location ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Independent agency measurement · verify at USGS ↗ Source Our computation, no independent reference · computed here from the screened record

The record

Period of record
1941-09-30 → 1986-09-30
Daily values
21,536
Latest cached reading
40.0 cfs (1986-09-30)
Trend
no trend, 1.62 cfs/decade (1.0% 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

Chart: annual mean flow at South Platte River at Littleton, water years 1941 to 1986. The measured record is no trend at 1.62 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 PLALITCO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AT LITTLETON, 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.