Animas River Blw Durango Pump Plant Nr Durango, CO
La Plata County, Colorado · USGS 09362520
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 · 29 minutes 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 1,480 ft³/s, 5.6× the historical median for this date. Flow has fallen 890 CFS over the past 24 hours.
USGS-reported historical daily median for 09-27: 267 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 | 182 CFS |
| Aug 29, 2026, 12:00 AM | 180 CFS |
| Aug 30, 2026, 12:00 AM | 182 CFS |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:00 AM | 195 CFS |
| Sep 1, 2026, 12:00 AM | 249 CFS |
| Sep 2, 2026, 12:00 AM | 273 CFS |
| Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 AM | 221 CFS |
| Sep 4, 2026, 12:00 AM | 211 CFS |
| Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM | 205 CFS |
| Sep 6, 2026, 12:00 AM | 199 CFS |
| Sep 7, 2026, 12:00 AM | 195 CFS |
| Sep 8, 2026, 12:00 AM | 193 CFS |
| Sep 9, 2026, 12:00 AM | 181 CFS |
| Sep 10, 2026, 12:00 AM | 171 CFS |
| Sep 11, 2026, 12:00 AM | 171 CFS |
| Sep 12, 2026, 12:00 AM | 169 CFS |
| Sep 13, 2026, 12:00 AM | 171 CFS |
| Sep 14, 2026, 12:00 AM | 185 CFS |
| Sep 15, 2026, 12:00 AM | 270 CFS |
| Sep 16, 2026, 12:00 AM | 303 CFS |
| Sep 17, 2026, 12:00 AM | 541 CFS |
| Sep 18, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,960 CFS |
| Sep 19, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,200 CFS |
| Sep 20, 2026, 12:00 AM | 834 CFS |
| Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 AM | 643 CFS |
| Sep 22, 2026, 12:00 AM | 544 CFS |
| Sep 23, 2026, 12:00 AM | 690 CFS |
| Sep 24, 2026, 12:00 AM | 752 CFS |
| Sep 25, 2026, 12:00 AM | 1,560 CFS |
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