McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 75 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 21% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6869.23 on Sunday, December 14th, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Dec 13, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 59.77 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 48.74% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 18,320 acre feet

This is 120.34% of the average of 15,223 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 2,878 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 31,988 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 15,442 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 240.41% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 116.87% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -8.19 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 0.04 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -0.03 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Dec 14, 2025
6869.23
-0.01
185,735
38
15
50.5
30.4
Sat, Dec 13, 2025
6869.24
-0.01
185,761
37
15
53.1
30.7
Fri, Dec 12, 2025
6869.25
0.02
185,787
77
15
52.0
30.4
Thu, Dec 11, 2025
6869.23
0.00
185,735
51
15
52.2
30.9
Wed, Dec 10, 2025
6869.23
0.01
185,735
64
15
49.5
27.0
Tue, Dec 09, 2025
6869.22
-0.03
185,708
11
15
46.4
24.4
Mon, Dec 08, 2025
6869.25
-0.02
185,787
20
15
43.9
25.3
Sun, Dec 07, 2025
6869.27
0.04
185,840
92
15
39.9
20.5
Sat, Dec 06, 2025
6869.23
-0.01
185,735
26
15
40.5
25.2
Fri, Dec 05, 2025
6869.24
-0.01
185,761
25
15
36.7
22.3
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
6869.25
-0.01
185,787
26
15
35.1
17.6
Wed, Dec 03, 2025
6869.26
0.01
185,814
52
15
39.2
22.1
Tue, Dec 02, 2025
6869.25
-0.01
185,787
26
15
40.6
22.5
Mon, Dec 01, 2025
6869.26
0.01
185,814
45
15
42.4
22.1
Averages of List
6869.24
-0
185,770
42.1
15.0
44.4
25.1

Averages for December 14th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.37
-17.14
244,920
59.71
39.62
40.72
20.87

Last 10 December 14th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Dec 14, 2024
6877.42
-8.19
208,491
45
25
43.1
23.8
Thu, Dec 14, 2023
6902.67
-33.44
293,463
37
42
45.9
31.3
Wed, Dec 14, 2022
6869.13
0.10
185,472
29
9
33.8
14.7
Tue, Dec 14, 2021
6860.16
9.07
163,414
10
5
38.0
23.0
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
6862.28
6.95
168,341
33
25
33.0
2.0
Sat, Dec 14, 2019
6901.48
-32.25
288,999
82
41
n/a
n/a
Fri, Dec 14, 2018
6862.30
6.93
168,388
21
29
n/a
n/a
Thu, Dec 14, 2017
6901.00
-31.77
287,193
11
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, Dec 14, 2016
6902.36
-33.13
292,296
47
30
n/a
n/a
Mon, Dec 14, 2015
6888.42
-19.19
242,810
105
31
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6882.70
-13.47
229,822
23
28
39.4
14.6


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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