Hydrohistorian
Rocky Ford Return For Aurora
River gage · RFDRETCO · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero County
The record
Period of record
1993-04-02 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
10,798
Latest cached reading
6.3 cfs (2026-07-06)
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
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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.