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South Platte River at Fort Lupton

River gage · PLALUPCO · USGS 06721000 · Division 1 · Water District 2 · Weld County

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The record

Period of record
1929-04-28 → 2026-05-19
Daily values
32,609
Latest cached reading
789.0 cfs (2026-05-19)
Trend
increasing, 26.22 cfs/decade (7.1% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1968

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 PLALUPCO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER AT FORT LUPTON, 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.