Animas River below Silverton, CO
San Juan County, Colorado · USGS 09359020
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What this gauge represents: This gauge measures conditions on Animas River at its USGS monitoring location in San Juan County; conditions elsewhere on the waterway may differ.
Observed · 1 hour ago
Observed
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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 308 ft³/s, 160% above the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 135 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 119 ft³/s · Based on USGS day-of-year statistics
How trends & context are calculated →Current water conditions
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 | 82.8 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 84.9 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 85.5 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 103 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 107 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 96.3 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 92.5 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 88.7 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 86.4 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 84.9 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 87.6 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 84.8 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 82.7 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 81.3 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 80.7 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 83 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 85.3 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 156 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 154 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 135 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 408 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 392 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 247 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 192 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 164 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 160 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 218 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 435 CFS |
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