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Saint Vrain Creek at Lyons

River gage · SVCLYOCO · USGS 06724000 · Division 1 · Water District 5 · Boulder County

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The record

Period of record
1895-09-30 → 2026-08-15
Daily values
61,440
Latest cached reading
28.2 cfs (2026-08-15)
Trend
decreasing, -4.91 cfs/decade (-3.9% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~1952

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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation SVCLYOCO; recorded station name “SAINT VRAIN CREEK AT LYONS, CO”; operated by DWR. 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.