Big Dry Creek below C-470 at Highlands Ranch flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 06710150, in the South Platte basin (Division 1).
About this gauge
Big Dry Creek below C-470 at Highlands Ranch 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 06710150 (39.5636, -104.9275), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 1:45 p.m. MT it read 0.8 cfs, about 1.5 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 1.4 cfs, so today's flow is 54% of it: below median.
On the Big Dry Creek, the nearest gauge BasinMind reads is Big Dry Creek at Westminster downstream.
Across Division 1, DWR lists 23 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 · 10 cfs
- South Platte River at Englewood · 22 cfs
- South Platte River at 64th Avenue, Commerce City · 35 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 at Westminster · 7.7 cfs
- Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton · 36 cfs
Reservoirs in the South Platte basin
- Horsetooth Reservoir
- Carter Lake
- Chatfield Reservoir
- Cherry Creek Reservoir
- Spinney Mountain Reservoir
- Button Rock (Ralph Price) Reservoir