McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 283 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 78% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6889.45 on Thursday, July 10th, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 17, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 39.55 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 64.63% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 126,323 acre feet

This is 42.61% of the average of 296,469 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 14,247 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 36,463 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has risen by 28,533 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 112,076 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 100.26% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 24.57% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -15.20 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 5.23 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -3.33 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, Jul 10, 2025
6889.45
-0.35
246,256
63
49
93.1
66.3
Wed, Jul 09, 2025
6889.80
-0.36
247,436
65
75
96.1
61.0
Tue, Jul 08, 2025
6890.16
-0.28
248,654
96
53
93.0
57.6
Mon, Jul 07, 2025
6890.44
-0.27
249,604
104
27
92.5
56.5
Sun, Jul 06, 2025
6890.71
-0.26
250,522
122
27
94.1
58.4
Sat, Jul 05, 2025
6890.97
-0.21
251,409
126
27
89.5
54.5
Fri, Jul 04, 2025
6891.18
-0.20
252,127
195
27
86.6
54.7
Thu, Jul 03, 2025
6891.38
-0.24
252,812
123
49
82.0
56.6
Wed, Jul 02, 2025
6891.62
-0.24
253,636
170
75
84.9
53.3
Tue, Jul 01, 2025
6891.86
-0.24
254,461
141
53
88.5
58.0
Mon, Jun 30, 2025
6892.10
-0.21
255,289
120
28
92.8
57.9
Sun, Jun 29, 2025
6892.31
-0.24
256,014
146
28
93.1
58.1
Sat, Jun 28, 2025
6892.55
-0.23
256,845
152
28
90.5
54.9
Fri, Jun 27, 2025
6892.78
-0.22
257,643
169
28
89.5
56.4
Averages of List
6891.24
-0.25
252,336
128.0
41.0
90.4
57.4

Averages for July 10th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6903.97
-14.52
308,072
344.52
112.79
92.98
58.90

Last 10 July 10th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, Jul 10, 2024
6904.65
-15.20
300,985
145
51
92.2
62.0
Mon, Jul 10, 2023
6923.29
-33.84
377,928
422
79
91.6
60.1
Sun, Jul 10, 2022
6885.35
4.10
232,765
107
28
92.0
60.0
Sat, Jul 10, 2021
6865.75
23.70
176,794
119
10
98.0
54.0
Fri, Jul 10, 2020
6889.94
-0.49
247,909
50
50
91.0
51.0
Wed, Jul 10, 2019
6924.02
-34.57
381,180
989
109
n/a
n/a
Tue, Jul 10, 2018
6878.76
10.69
212,429
86
21
n/a
n/a
Mon, Jul 10, 2017
6919.49
-30.04
361,309
295
138
n/a
n/a
Sun, Jul 10, 2016
6920.15
-30.70
364,158
243
77
n/a
n/a
Fri, Jul 10, 2015
6913.45
-24.00
335,900
506
79
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6902.22
-12.77
298,192
288
92
92.3
58.5


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Measurements are taken at 11:59 pm of the date listed
Temperature data is from Lewis, CO
CHANGE represents water elevation change from previous day

Units used in each measurement:
Elevation - Feet above sea level
Change - Feet difference over previous measurement
Content - Acre Feet
Inflow - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
Outflow - Average Cubic Feet / Second over entire 24 hour period
All Temps - Degrees Farhenheit
The Water Year runs from October 1 to September 30 of the next year
Acre Feet = 1.9835 * Flow CFS
TP = Total Precipitation



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Water data sourced from: McPhee Source Data
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McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado