McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 221 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 61% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6876.80 on Saturday, May 9th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 8, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 52.2 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.24% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 72,517 acre feet

This is 53.24% of the average of 136,199 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,930 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 31,439 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 65,587 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 124.96% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 20.53% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -11.05 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 0.27 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.16 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, May 09, 2026
6876.80
-0.07
206,688
300
n/a
77.5
49.5
Fri, May 08, 2026
6876.87
-0.05
206,891
280
11
76.8
45.5
Thu, May 07, 2026
6876.92
0.00
207,036
265
11
67.3
33.4
Wed, May 06, 2026
6876.92
-0.04
207,036
241
11
56.7
39.6
Tue, May 05, 2026
6876.96
-0.06
207,152
237
20
61.5
44.9
Mon, May 04, 2026
6877.02
-0.05
207,326
205
6
65.3
45.5
Sun, May 03, 2026
6877.07
0.05
207,472
282
6
69.8
39.7
Sat, May 02, 2026
6877.02
0.04
207,326
249
6
63.7
39.2
Fri, May 01, 2026
6876.98
0.05
207,210
268
6
62.4
36.5
Thu, Apr 30, 2026
6876.93
0.06
207,065
302
6
63.0
44.4
Wed, Apr 29, 2026
6876.87
0.04
206,891
273
6
63.5
42.8
Tue, Apr 28, 2026
6876.83
0.07
206,775
289
6
58.8
38.5
Mon, Apr 27, 2026
6876.76
0.12
206,572
323
6
56.8
39.0
Sun, Apr 26, 2026
6876.64
0.15
206,225
385
6
53.6
43.9
Averages of List
6876.90
0.02
206,976
278.5
8.2
64.1
41.6

Averages for May 9th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6900.26
-23.46
295,612
1726.67
673.69
71.41
38.83

Last 10 May 9th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, May 09, 2025
6887.85
-11.05
240,919
455
15
73.0
40.5
Thu, May 09, 2024
6905.31
-28.51
303,519
529
50
62.1
35.0
Tue, May 09, 2023
6918.57
-41.77
357,361
4135
31
74.3
42.8
Mon, May 09, 2022
6886.01
-9.21
234,896
1871
8
72.0
44.0
Sun, May 09, 2021
6868.31
8.49
183,327
668
10
65.0
32.0
Sat, May 09, 2020
6899.79
-22.99
282,736
981
51
76.0
28.0
Thu, May 09, 2019
6902.04
-25.24
291,094
1811
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, May 09, 2018
6897.35
-20.55
273,839
612
41
n/a
n/a
Tue, May 09, 2017
6911.60
-34.80
328,356
3280
1943
n/a
n/a
Mon, May 09, 2016
6907.66
-30.86
312,652
1221
55
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6898.77
-21.97
282,052
1504
151
70.5
39.5


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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