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Rocky Ford Return For Aurora

River gage · RFDRETCO · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero County

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

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

The record

Period of record
1993-04-02 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
10,881
Latest cached reading
75.0 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
no trend, 0.29 cfs/decade (1.9% 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 Rocky Ford Return For Aurora, water years 1993 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at 0.29 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 (4.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation RFDRETCO; recorded station name “ROCKY FORD RETURN FOR AURORA”; operated by AURO. 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.