Blue River below Dillon flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 09050700, in the Colorado River basin (Division 5).
About this gauge
Blue River below Dillon is one of the 107 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Colorado River basin, Division 5 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 09050700 (39.6256, -106.0658), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 5, 2026, 1:15 p.m. MT it read 54 cfs, about 107 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 105 cfs, so today's flow is 51% of it: below median.
On the Blue River, the nearest gauges BasinMind reads are Blue River near Dillon upstream and Blue River above Green Mountain Reservoir downstream.
Across Division 5, DWR lists 34 active calls; the most senior is Four Mile Ditch on Fourmile Creek, priority Nov 6, 1881 (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 Colorado River basin
- Colorado River near Cameo · 1,150 cfs
- Colorado River near Colorado-Utah State Line · 1,950 cfs
- Colorado River above Gunnison River at Grand Junction · 259 cfs
- Colorado River below Glenwood Springs · 1,070 cfs
- Colorado River near Dotsero · 591 cfs
- Colorado River near Kremmling · 388 cfs
- Colorado River at Windy Gap near Granby · 72 cfs
- Colorado River below Lake Granby · 23 cfs
More gauges on the Blue River
- Blue River at Blue River · 12 cfs
- Blue River near Dillon · 35 cfs
- Blue River above Green Mountain Reservoir
- Blue River below Green Mountain Reservoir · 138 cfs
Reservoirs in the Colorado River basin
- Lake Granby
- Dillon Reservoir
- Green Mountain Reservoir
- Ruedi Reservoir
- Williams Fork Reservoir
- Wolford Mountain Reservoir
- Homestake Reservoir
- Shadow Mountain Reservoir
- Rifle Gap Reservoir
- Willow Creek Reservoir