McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 191 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 52% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6873.60 on Thursday, April 9th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Aug 26, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 55.4 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 51.85% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 53,725 acre feet

This is 96.28% of the average of 55,801 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,540 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 22,339 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 47,185 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 239.68% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 79.28% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -6.22 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 9.47 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 4.53 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, Apr 09, 2026
6873.60
0.26
197,588
445
5
73.2
45.3
Wed, Apr 08, 2026
6873.34
0.20
196,864
406
5
72.1
42.4
Tue, Apr 07, 2026
6873.14
0.24
196,309
448
5
66.9
43.2
Mon, Apr 06, 2026
6872.90
0.24
195,644
454
5
65.8
41.0
Sun, Apr 05, 2026
6872.66
0.30
194,982
440
5
65.5
32.0
Sat, Apr 04, 2026
6872.36
0.30
194,156
437
5
62.8
30.4
Fri, Apr 03, 2026
6872.06
0.37
193,334
539
5
51.1
30.4
Thu, Apr 02, 2026
6871.69
0.38
192,325
577
5
59.0
35.6
Wed, Apr 01, 2026
6871.31
0.56
191,293
819
5
53.6
41.4
Tue, Mar 31, 2026
6870.75
0.39
189,781
623
27
67.8
45.1
Mon, Mar 30, 2026
6870.36
0.43
188,735
663
29
72.1
49.5
Sun, Mar 29, 2026
6869.93
0.42
187,588
724
28
71.4
43.7
Sat, Mar 28, 2026
6869.51
0.44
186,474
780
28
72.5
43.7
Fri, Mar 27, 2026
6869.07
0.50
185,314
865
28
77.4
45.7
Averages of List
6871.62
0.36
192,171
587.1
13.2
66.5
40.7

Averages for April 9th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6889.50
-15.9
259,865
935.58
258.56
67.37
36.87

Last 10 April 9th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, Apr 09, 2025
6879.82
-6.22
215,587
174
10
72.0
38.0
Tue, Apr 09, 2024
6901.18
-27.58
287,881
80
75
57.6
35.0
Sun, Apr 09, 2023
6872.86
0.74
195,534
841
50
65.8
38.8
Sat, Apr 09, 2022
6869.02
4.58
185,182
694
7
71.0
28.0
Fri, Apr 09, 2021
6863.34
10.26
170,872
153
14
65.0
37.0
Thu, Apr 09, 2020
6898.58
-24.98
278,302
120
34
67.0
36.0
Tue, Apr 09, 2019
6866.95
6.65
179,826
1729
41
n/a
n/a
Mon, Apr 09, 2018
6898.08
-24.48
276,483
270
41
n/a
n/a
Sun, Apr 09, 2017
6915.37
-41.77
343,847
1242
1181
n/a
n/a
Sat, Apr 09, 2016
6896.79
-23.19
271,821
1271
53
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6886.52
-12.92
241,409
708
151
65.6
34.6


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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