Animas River at Tall Timber Resort above Tacoma,co
La Plata County, Colorado · USGS 09359500
Latest observation
What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Animas River at its USGS monitoring location in La Plata County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 1 hour ago
Observed
How to read these numbers
How much water moves past the gauge each second. Higher numbers mean more water is moving downstream.
The water-surface height at this gauge. It is useful for tracking rises, falls and flood thresholds, but it is not the river's total depth.
How much the latest reading has risen or fallen compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.
The typical streamflow for this date based on USGS historical statistics. A multiple such as 3× means current flow is about three times the historical median.
Get Water Data's plain-language summary of current flow, historical context and recent direction.
Official action and flood thresholds where available. These levels are specific to each gauge location.
Gauge height and flood stage are station-specific. A 12-foot reading at one gauge should not be directly compared with 12 feet at another.
Above historical median · Falling
Streamflow is currently 1,020 ft³/s, 5.4× the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 600 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 190 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Streamflow trend
Daily mean streamflow · Aug 28–Sep 25 · dates shown in UTC · 29 observations
Look at the data (29 rows)
| Date (UTC) | Daily mean |
|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026, 12:00 AM | 123 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 130 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 135 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 168 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 214 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 175 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 165 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 151 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 144 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 136 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 141 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 134 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 129 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 123 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 118 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 119 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 118 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 213 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 272 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 235 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,130 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,370 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 764 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 546 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 438 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 382 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 643 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 547 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,680 CFS |
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