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Slate River near Crested Butte

River gage · SLATBUCO · USGS 09111500 · Division 4 · Water District 59 · Gunnison County

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The record

Period of record
1940-04-01 → 2006-09-30
Daily values
8,948
Latest cached reading
66.0 cfs (2006-09-30)
Trend
decreasing, -4.98 cfs/decade (-3.7% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1997

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).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation SLATBUCO; recorded station name “SLATE RIVER NEAR CRESTED BUTTE, 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.