East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 07079300, in the Arkansas basin (Division 2).
About this gauge
East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville 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 07079300 (39.2725, -106.3064), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 12:15 p.m. MT it read 14 cfs, about 28 acre-feet a day. The median flow for this date over the gauge's record is 20 cfs, so today's flow is 70% of it: below median.
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
- Arkansas River near Nathrop
- Arkansas River at Portland
- Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo · 284 cfs
- Arkansas River near Avondale · 622 cfs
- Arkansas River at La Junta