McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 113 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 31% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6877.40 on Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Jan 20, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 51.6 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.7% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 9,779 acre feet

This is 48.54% of the average of 20,145 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 6,851 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 36,463 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has fallen by 9,291 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 2,928 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 133.88% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 132.36% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -24.90 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is up 0.20 feet from the low for water year.

View CFS     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -0.11 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, Jan 21, 2025
6877.40
-0.02
208,432
6
50
28.8
2.2
Mon, Jan 20, 2025
6877.42
-0.01
208,491
34
50
30.2
11.4
Sun, Jan 19, 2025
6877.43
0.00
208,520
63
50
25.2
7.6
Sat, Jan 18, 2025
6877.43
-0.02
208,520
12
50
31.1
15.0
Fri, Jan 17, 2025
6877.45
0.00
208,578
63
50
40.4
24.8
Thu, Jan 16, 2025
6877.45
-0.01
208,578
34
50
46.0
20.1
Wed, Jan 15, 2025
6877.46
-0.01
208,607
34
52
39.1
15.6
Tue, Jan 14, 2025
6877.47
-0.01
208,637
34
52
37.8
16.9
Mon, Jan 13, 2025
6877.48
-0.01
208,666
36
52
33.5
20.5
Sun, Jan 12, 2025
6877.49
0.01
208,695
93
52
33.8
19.2
Sat, Jan 11, 2025
6877.48
-0.02
208,666
6
52
37.2
22.8
Fri, Jan 10, 2025
6877.50
-0.04
208,724
-54
52
37.6
14.0
Thu, Jan 09, 2025
6877.54
0.03
208,841
151
50
38.3
20.0
Wed, Jan 08, 2025
6877.51
-0.01
208,753
32
50
41.5
29.1
Averages of List
6877.47
-0.01
208,622
76.9
100.7
35.8
17.1

Averages for January 21st

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.98
-9.58
246,894
137.20
90.13
34.92
14.62

Last 10 January 21st's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Jan 21, 2024
6902.30
-24.90
292,070
206
79
39.4
30.6
Sat, Jan 21, 2023
6870.60
6.80
189,378
111
20
29.4
9.3
Fri, Jan 21, 2022
6861.27
16.13
165,971
44
10
39.0
16.0
Thu, Jan 21, 2021
6861.95
15.45
167,562
85
50
38.0
15.0
Tue, Jan 21, 2020
6901.34
-23.94
288,477
244
81
n/a
n/a
Mon, Jan 21, 2019
6862.39
15.01
168,601
117
58
n/a
n/a
Sun, Jan 21, 2018
6900.37
-22.97
284,875
-18
79
n/a
n/a
Sat, Jan 21, 2017
6902.90
-25.50
294,330
395
61
n/a
n/a
Thu, Jan 21, 2016
6889.21
-11.81
245,450
107
61
n/a
n/a
Wed, Jan 21, 2015
6868.12
9.28
182,834
192
52
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6882.06
-4.66
228,002
98
55
38.1
20.7


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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 - Acre Feet per day
Outflow - Acre Feet per day
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