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South Platte River near Weldona

River gage · PLAWELCO · USGS 06758500 · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Morgan County

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The record

Period of record
1952-09-30 → 2026-08-12
Daily values
30,072
Latest cached reading
140.0 cfs (2026-08-12)
Trend
no trend, 21.83 cfs/decade (4.3% 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation PLAWELCO; recorded station name “SOUTH PLATTE RIVER NEAR WELDONA, CO”; 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.