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Alamosa River below Terrace Reservoir flow today

Streamflow at DWR telemetry station ALABELCO, in the Rio Grande basin (Division 3).

Figures as of · Advisory only — confirm water rights with Colorado DWR.

Flow66 cfsabout 130 acre-feet a dayColorado DWR telemetry · Oct 4, 2026, 12:30 p.m. MT

About this gauge

Alamosa River below Terrace Reservoir is one of the 6 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Rio Grande basin, Division 3 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is DWR station ALABELCO (37.3538, -106.2783), and the official record is on that station's page.

At Oct 4, 2026, 12:30 p.m. MT it read 66 cfs, about 130 acre-feet a day. DWR telemetry stations carry no daily median, so no percentage is shown.

Across Division 3, DWR lists 9 active calls; the most senior is Garland D,Hdgt 1 on Sangre De Cristo Creek, priority May 31, 1863 (the full list). A call governs the stretch of river it is placed on, so look for this river in the list.

One cfs is a cubic foot of water passing each second, about 448.8 gallons per minute; percent of median compares today's flow with the median for this date (cfs and acre-feet). How calls work: What is a water call?.

Main-stem gauges in the Rio Grande basin

Reservoirs in the Rio Grande basin

More for this basin

Sources

  1. Colorado Division of Water Resources — station ALABELCO
  2. Colorado's Decision Support Systems (CDSS) — telemetry
  3. Colorado DWR — Active administrative calls (CDSS)