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San Miguel River near Placerville

River gage · SMGPLACO · USGS 09172500 · Division 4 · Water District 60 · San Miguel County

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The record

Period of record
1910-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
32,965
Latest cached reading
85.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -2.57 cfs/decade (-1.1% 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 (5).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation SMGPLACO; recorded station name “SAN MIGUEL RIVER NEAR PLACERVILLE, 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.