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Rio Chama below Abiquiu Dam

River gage · RCHBABNM · USGS 08287000 · Division 3 · Water District 20 · Elbert County

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The record

Period of record
1961-11-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
23,623
Latest cached reading
261.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -2.15 cfs/decade (-0.5% 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 RCHBABNM; recorded station name “RIO CHAMA BELOW ABIQUIU DAM”; 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.