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Weldon Valley Ditch Return

Ditch / canal gage · WELRETCO · Division 1 · Water District 1 · Morgan County

Live gage at DWR ↗ · Download daily record (CSV)

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR station ↗ Source Our computation, no independent reference · computed here from the screened record

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
2006-09-13 → 2026-09-27
Daily values
7,320
Flowing now
27.5 cfs 2026-10-15 17:30, 1.1 h ago
Latest cached reading
17.6 cfs (2026-09-27)
Trend
decreasing, -2.93 cfs/decade (-22.3% of median)
Pettitt changepoint
~2016

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 Weldon Valley Ditch Return, water years 2006 to 2026. The measured record is decreasing at -2.93 cubic feet per second per decade. A Pettitt changepoint is detected around 2016. 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 WELRETCO; recorded station name “WELDON VALLEY DITCH RETURN”; 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.