South Platte River level at Deckers
Colorado · Fishing & wading
Measured at USGS 06701900 — SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BLW BRUSH CRK NEAR TRUMBULL, CO
Reading taken · as of 43 min ago
Low and clear — wadeable, and fish will be spooky
At 80 CFS, this gauge is in the lowest 5% of the 24 years USGS has recorded for this date (2002–2026), at 36% of the 224 CFS median.
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Flow history at Deckers
Daily values from USGS 06701900, updated every 15 to 60 minutes. Provisional.
About South Platte River at Deckers
This gauge peaks in August. The published monthly medians run 321 CFS in August and 279 in July against 213 in June and 223 in May, which inverts the pattern every unregulated Front Range stream follows. February, at 113 CFS, is the low month.
USGS publishes it as South Platte River below Brush Creek near Trumbull, at 6,380 feet on a 2,028 square mile drainage, with daily statistics covering 2002 to 2026, about 24 years. Within that window the record runs from 41.7 CFS on 1 January 2004 to 2,190 CFS on 17 June 2015. The NWS maintains no forecast point here, so there are no flood categories on this page.
South Platte River at Deckers — common questions
6 questions
Why is the high month August rather than June?
On an unregulated Colorado stream at this elevation the year peaks with snowmelt in late May and June. Here the published medians put August highest at 321 CFS and July second at 279, with June at 213. That shape is characteristic of a reach whose flow is being released from storage rather than arriving from the hillside, and it is worth knowing when you read the percent of normal figure in midsummer.
How much record is behind the normal here?
About 24 years. The daily series begins on 19 July 2002 and USGS statistics cover 2002 to 2026. That is shorter than the century scale records on some gauges here but long enough for the seasonal shape to be meaningful. The extremes in that window are 41.7 CFS on 1 January 2004 and 2,190 CFS on 17 June 2015.
Does Clear Creek at Golden predict this gauge?
Weakly. Across 8,824 days of overlapping record since 2002 the correlation is 0.484 and this station runs at a median of about 1.98 times Clear Creek's flow, 34.1 miles north. Clear Creek follows the snowmelt curve and this reach does not, which is most of the reason the two do not track: their high months are different months.
What makes the flow change on South Platte River at Deckers?
Rain upstream, plus seasonal baseflow. The 12-month chart shows how it behaves through the year.
Is South Platte River at Deckers high or low for this time of year?
The USGS median flow for late September here is 224 CFS, from 24 years of record (2002–2026). Today sits in the lowest 5% of those years, at 36% of the median. The comparison is what makes the raw number mean anything: the same reading is a drought on one river and a flood on another.
How often does this reading update?
USGS transmits from gauge 06701900 every 15 to 60 minutes. This page refreshes from USGS when you open it, and the reading is provisional until USGS reviews it. The timestamp is in the gauge's local time.