Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 06720990, in the South Platte basin (Division 1).
About this gauge
Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton is one of the 68 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the South Platte basin, Division 1 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 06720990 (40.0688, -104.8320), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 1:30 p.m. MT it read 36 cfs, about 71 acre-feet a day. USGS publishes no daily median for this gauge, so no percentage is shown.
On the Big Dry Creek, the nearest gauge BasinMind reads is Big Dry Creek at Westminster upstream.
Across Division 1, DWR lists 21 active calls; the most senior is Howard Ditch on South Boulder Creek, priority Apr 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 South Platte basin
- South Platte River above Cheesman Lake
- South Platte River below Brush Creek near Trumbull · 83 cfs
- South Platte River below Union Avenue at Englewood · 11 cfs
- South Platte River at Englewood · 22 cfs
- South Platte River at 64th Avenue, Commerce City · 36 cfs
- South Platte River at Fort Lupton · 135 cfs
- South Platte River at Fort Morgan · 146 cfs
More gauges on the Big Dry Creek
- Big Dry Creek below C-470 at Highlands Ranch · 0.8 cfs
- Big Dry Creek at Westminster · 7.7 cfs
Reservoirs in the South Platte basin
- Horsetooth Reservoir
- Carter Lake
- Chatfield Reservoir
- Cherry Creek Reservoir
- Spinney Mountain Reservoir
- Button Rock (Ralph Price) Reservoir