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Rocky Mountain Paddleboard - Union Reservoir

Lupton Bottom Ditch near Rocky Mountain Paddleboard - Union Reservoir

Canal14.3 mi
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About this river

Lupton Bottom Ditch is a 14.3 mile canal near Rocky Mountain Paddleboard - Union Reservoir in Colorado. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton, CO (site 06720990). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 8. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.

Typical flow by month

1992 to 2026

Lupton Bottom Ditch typically runs highest in April, at a median 46 cfs, and lowest in February, at 24 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 736 cfs, in 2013.

Typical flow by month at Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton, CO, in cfs
MonthTypical (cfs)Usual range (cfs)Relative level
January2522 to 29
February2421 to 31
March2621 to 34
April4626 to 66
May3926 to 65
June3724 to 55
July3923 to 60
August3622 to 54
September4025 to 55
October3525 to 47
November2923 to 35
December2521 to 31

Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 34 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Big Dry Creek at Mouth near Fort Lupton, CO (site 06720990). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.

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