Pueblo Reservoir → Arkansas River → Pueblo

Watch the water system breathe.

Live public measurements, historical context, and source health from USGS and the Bureau of Reclamation—assembled into one honest view.

LoadingContacting public sensors…Measurements are provisional and may be revised.

Reservoir surface—feet above NGVD 1929 · USGS 07099350Waiting for seven-day series

Arkansas River downtown—cubic feet per second · Moffat StreetWaiting for seven-day series

Water temperature—upstream monitoring probeUSGS 07099400

Dissolved oxygen—milligrams per literUSGS 07099400

Specific conductance—µS/cm at 25°CUSGS 07099400

Seven-day trace

Reservoir elevation

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Seven-day trace

River response downtown

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The measurement chain

What we can see—and what we cannot

1At the reservoir15-minute water-surface elevation from USGS. Reclamation documents additional HydroMet weather and storage sensors.

2OperationsDaily Reclamation storage and total-release records establish how the reservoir is being operated.

3Water qualityA USGS probe above Pueblo reports temperature, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen every 15 minutes.

4Downstream impactMoffat Street measures river discharge, stage, and surface elevation through Pueblo.

Primary sources

Direct feeds and records

LIVE · 15 MINReservoir surface elevation

USGS monitoring location 07099350.

LIVE · 15 MINWater-quality probe

Temperature, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen.

LIVE · 15 MINArkansas River at Moffat Street

Discharge, gage height, and stream elevation.

DAILY · RISE 681Reservoir storage

Observed acre-feet record beginning in 1974.

DAILY · RISE 684Total reservoir release

Daily mean discharge record beginning in 1984.

HYDROMET · PUERReservoir weather station

Storage, elevation, pressure, precipitation, temperature, humidity, and wind are documented; its legacy plotter is currently under maintenance.

Dam-safety boundary

There are more sensors inside the dam. They are not a public live feed.

Reclamation confirms monitoring instrumentation on its dams, and historical technical material documents movement and joint monitoring at Pueblo Dam. Current dam-safety reports and detailed instrumentation are safeguarded. Pueblo Ledger should seek only non-sensitive inventories, inspection dates, aggregate status, and public conclusions—not raw readings, locations, control details, or security-sensitive engineering.

How this works

The page retrieves the latest seven days directly from the public USGS Instantaneous Values service. No Pueblo Ledger server receives personal information, and no private sensor is queried. A failed source stays visibly failed rather than being replaced with an invented value. Reclamation records are linked directly while a durable server-side RISE collector is prepared.