Arkansas River near Avondale flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 07109500, in the Arkansas basin (Division 2).
About this gauge
Arkansas River near Avondale is one of the 83 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Arkansas basin, Division 2 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 07109500 (38.2481, -104.3986), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 12:45 p.m. MT it read 622 cfs, about 1,234 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 340 cfs, so today's flow is 183% of it: above median.
On the Arkansas River, the nearest gauges BasinMind reads are Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo upstream and Arkansas River at Nepesta downstream.
Across Division 2, DWR lists 18 active calls; the most senior is Hardscrabble Ditch on Hardscrabble Creek, priority May 1, 1860 (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 Arkansas basin
- Arkansas River at Parkdale
- Arkansas River near Leadville · 12 cfs
- East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville · 14 cfs
- Arkansas River near Nathrop
- Arkansas River at Portland
- Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo · 284 cfs
- Arkansas River at La Junta
More gauges on the Arkansas River
- Arkansas River below Empire Gulch near Malta
- Arkansas River at Granite
- Arkansas River below Granite
- Arkansas River at Canon City
- Arkansas River near Portland
- Arkansas River above Pueblo
- Arkansas River at Nepesta
- Arkansas River at Catlin Dam near Fowler
- Arkansas River at Las Animas
- Arkansas River below John Martin Reservoir
- Arkansas River at Lamar
- Arkansas River near Granada
- Arkansas River at Holly