Pueblo Reservoir & the Arkansas River
How is our water changing?
Track the level, the amount stored, and the pace of change.
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Daily history · 2021 onward where available
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Change over observed period—
Average daily change—
Observed low → high—
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Solid blue: selected period. Dashed gray: previous year when selected.
Daily readings table
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Live seven-day traces · 15-minute observations
Reservoir elevation
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River flow downtown
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Reservoir, river & burn-scar monitoring
Put the readings on the map
Blue: water gauges · amber: cameras
Map shows monitoring locations, not today's shoreline, a flood boundary, or a water-supply service area. Select a marker for its source.
USGS HIVIS · public observation cameras
Eyes on the Aspen Acres burn scar
Game Gulch, South Creek, North Creek, and Willis Creek. These are periodically captured images, not continuous video. Open a camera for its image history and time-lapse tools.
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Field photos · June 11, 2024
Camera installation at Cumbres Pass
The photos show a pole-mounted camera, solar panel, and two equipment boxes. One also shows the back of a nearby sign, but its writing and any connection to the camera are unknown. No readable label on the camera or boxes identifies its operator or feed. The photos' location metadata places this installation at Cumbres Pass; a match to any public feed on this page has not been established. Select a photo for a larger view.
Photos supplied by the photographer, June 11, 2024. These are site photos, not current camera images.
Make sense of the numbers
Level ≠ supply
Elevation tells you where the surface sits. Storage measures the amount of water in acre-feet. A falling reservoir can reflect releases, seasonal demand, evaporation, and inflow changes; it does not by itself establish a shortage or a watering restriction.
One acre-foot is enough to cover one acre one foot deep—about 325,851 gallons. Reservoir storage serves multiple users and is not the same as Pueblo's available drinking-water supply.
Rates here describe an observed interval. They are not forecasts of when the reservoir will run dry.
Official conditions & guidance
Drought and local notices
Check the dated drought assessment and your own provider's current instructions. Reservoir readings and flood cameras answer different questions.
Sources, freshness, and limits
Live readings load independently from USGS. Failed requests time out after 12 seconds and retry with delays up to five minutes. Saved readings retain their observation timestamps and are never labeled live. Daily history is collected every six hours; failed sources retry every 15 minutes. Public camera metadata refreshes every five minutes. Last-good history stays available during source outages.
Historical elevation from Reclamation has no vertical datum specified in its catalog, so it is never spliced into the USGS NGVD 1929 series. Daily observations and daily means are labeled separately. Gaps remain gaps. Data are provisional and may be revised. Camera views are observations, not a flood-warning service; use official NWS warnings for current hazards.
Dam-safety instrumentation is not part of this dashboard. Only public environmental measurements and public USGS imagery are included.