Colorado River near Colorado-Utah State Line flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 09163500, in the Colorado River basin (Division 5).
About this gauge
Colorado River near Colorado-Utah State Line 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 09163500 (39.1327, -109.0271), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 12:45 p.m. MT it read 2,090 cfs, about 4,146 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 3,540 cfs, so today's flow is 59% of it: below median.
On the Colorado River, the nearest gauge BasinMind reads is Colorado River above Gunnison River at Grand Junction upstream.
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 · 1,180 cfs
- Colorado River above Gunnison River at Grand Junction · 303 cfs
- Colorado River below Glenwood Springs · 1,080 cfs
- Colorado River near Dotsero · 591 cfs
- Colorado River near Kremmling · 388 cfs
- Colorado River at Windy Gap near Granby · 93 cfs
- Colorado River below Lake Granby · 29 cfs
More gauges on the Colorado River
- Colorado River below Baker Gulch near Grand Lake
- Colorado River below Shadow Mountain Reservoir
- Colorado River near Granby
- Colorado River at Catamount Bridge
- Colorado River below Grand Valley Diversion near Palisade
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