Slate River above Baxter Gulch at Highway 135 near Crested Butte flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 385106106571000, in the Gunnison basin (Division 4).
No current figure from the source for: flow at this gauge.
About this gauge
Slate River above Baxter Gulch at Highway 135 near Crested Butte is one of the 51 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Gunnison basin, Division 4 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 385106106571000 (38.8517, -106.9534), and the official record is on that station's page.
On the Slate River, the nearest gauge BasinMind reads is Slate River above Coal Creek at Crested Butte downstream.
Across Division 4, DWR lists 21 active calls; the most senior is Kennedy Ditch No 1 on Razor Creek, priority Mar 15, 1878 (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 Gunnison basin
- Gunnison River near Grand Junction · 1,090 cfs
- Gunnison River at Delta · 447 cfs
- Uncompahgre River at Colona · 64 cfs
- Uncompahgre River near Ridgway · 101 cfs
- Gunnison River below Gunnison Tunnel · 209 cfs
- North Fork Gunnison River near Somerset · 57 cfs
- Gunnison River near Gunnison · 214 cfs
- Tomichi Creek at Gunnison · 84 cfs
More gauges on the Slate River
Reservoirs in the Gunnison basin
- Blue Mesa Reservoir
- Morrow Point Reservoir
- Crystal Reservoir
- Taylor Park Reservoir
- Ridgway Reservoir
- Paonia Reservoir
- Silver Jack Reservoir