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Water Resources of Colorado

Welcome to the USGS Colorado Water Science Center. These pages are your source for water-resource information collected and interpreted by the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado.

Streamflow Conditions in Colorado

Current streamflow conditions in Colorado; click to go to a live map.
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Explanation of percentile classes

Summary and Alerts

Map based display of CO precipitation gage data

Map of Flood and High Flow Conditions for Colorado

WebCams

Fourmile Creek WebCam and Flood Video

Waldo Canyon WebCam

Williams Canyon WebCam

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USGS Colorado Water Science Center Highlights

Featured Activities

USGS Scientists Study Effects of Gold King Mine Release

Photograph showing natural iron-rich acidic spring flowing into Cement Creek near Silverton, Colorado.On August 5 2015, while investigating the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency accidentally triggered the release of approximately three million gallons of acidic, metal-rich mine wastewater from the Gold King Mine into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River. The Animas River flows south into the San Juan River, which is a tributary to the Colorado River.

Water-Quality Summaries for Several Major River Basins in Colorado

Summaries of water-quality monitoring data are now available for several major river basins in Colorado. For each basin, current data from a network of sites are compared to previously collected data and instream standards. Lowess curves are provided on plots for selected constituents where a sufficient period of record and limited censored data are available.

 

Featured Publications

2018
SIR
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2018-5142
Groundwater Chemistry and Water-Level Elevations in Bedrock Aquifers of the Piceance and Yellow Creek Watersheds, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, 2013-16
By Judith C. Thomas and Peter B. McMahon
DR
U.S. Geological Survey Data Release
Topographic Survey and Streambed-Sediment Data of Fountain Creek between Colorado Springs and the Confluence of Fountain Creek at the Arkansas River, Colorado, 2018
By Patrick M. O'Shea
JRN
Hydrobiologia
A paradox of warming in a deep peri-Alpine lake (Lake Lugano, Switzerland and Italy)
By Fabio Lepori, James J. Roberts, and Travis S. Schmidt
PDF | Online Journal Article
JRN
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Data for understanding the captivity effect on invertebrate communities transplanted into an experimental stream laboratory
By Travis S. Schmidt, Holly A. Rogers, Janet L. Miller, Christopher A. Mebane, and Laurie S. Balistrieri
PDF | Online Journal Article

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Water Mission Area

Hurricane response and storm monitoring performed by the USGS.

Video - Streamgages: The Silent Superhero

Whether you drink water from your tap, use electricity or canoe down your local river, chances are you benefit from USGS streamgage information. So what is a streamgage and what does it do for you? This CoreCast episode gives you the inside scoop on your silent superhero.

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