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Rio Grande at Embudo, Nm.

River gage · RIOEMBNM · USGS 08279500 · Division 3 · Water District 20

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Two different numbers, deliberately: Flowing now is raw 15-minute telemetry, provisional and unreviewed. Latest cached reading is the end of the verified daily record. They are never merged, and the verified series is the one the trend is computed on.

The record

Period of record
1889-01-01 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
47,019
Flowing now
247.0 cfs 2026-10-14 21:00, 0.9 h ago
Latest cached reading
185.0 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
decreasing, -36.56 cfs/decade (-4.8% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1949

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 Rio Grande at Embudo, Nm., water years 1889 to 2026. The measured record is decreasing at -36.56 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1949. 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation RIOEMBNM; recorded station name “RIO GRANDE AT EMBUDO, NM.”; 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.