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Rock Creek above Fort Carson Reservation

Reservoir gage · ROCAFOCO · USGS 07105945 · Division 2 · Water District 10 · El Paso County

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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
1978-05-19 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
15,658
Flowing now
0.44 cfs last reported 2026-10-01 00:55 — gone quiet
Latest cached reading
0.1 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
no trend, -0.36 cfs/decade (-22.6% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1999

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 Rock Creek above Fort Carson Reservation, water years 1978 to 2026. The measured record is no trend at -0.36 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 1999. 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 ROCAFOCO; recorded station name “ROCK CREEK ABOVE FORT CARSON RESERVATION, CO.”; 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.