McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 62 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 17% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6869.26 on Monday, December 1st, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Nov 30, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 59.74 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 48.76% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 17,239 acre feet

This is 127.23% of the average of 13,549 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 2,491 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 31,909 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 14,748 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 262.24% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 101.36% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -8.07 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 5.13 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.44 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Dec 01, 2025
6869.26
0.01
185,814
45
15
42.4
22.1
Sun, Nov 30, 2025
6869.25
0.01
185,787
34
15
44.2
26.2
Sat, Nov 29, 2025
6869.24
0.06
185,761
101
15
44.4
28.4
Fri, Nov 28, 2025
6869.18
0.03
185,603
61
15
53.4
31.3
Thu, Nov 27, 2025
6869.15
0.01
185,524
34
15
52.9
31.5
Wed, Nov 26, 2025
6869.14
-0.01
185,498
8
15
48.6
28.0
Tue, Nov 25, 2025
6869.15
0.04
185,524
74
15
48.6
28.0
Mon, Nov 24, 2025
6869.11
0.04
185,419
75
15
42.6
27.5
Sun, Nov 23, 2025
6869.07
0.10
185,314
155
15
41.9
34.7
Sat, Nov 22, 2025
6868.97
0.01
185,051
36
15
52.9
31.8
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
6868.96
0.03
185,025
63
15
45.0
32.9
Thu, Nov 20, 2025
6868.93
0.08
184,946
128
15
49.5
37.4
Wed, Nov 19, 2025
6868.85
0.03
184,736
62
15
53.2
36.7
Tue, Nov 18, 2025
6868.82
0.03
184,658
63
15
51.8
29.7
Averages of List
6869.08
0.03
185,333
67.1
15.0
48.0
30.4

Averages for December 1st

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.39
-17.13
245,101
79.14
42.02
45.87
22.57

Last 10 December 1st's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Dec 01, 2024
6877.33
-8.07
208,228
31
25
46.9
26.6
Fri, Dec 01, 2023
6903.49
-34.23
296,563
32
40
36.7
28.0
Thu, Dec 01, 2022
6868.72
0.54
184,396
28
9
48.2
25.7
Wed, Dec 01, 2021
6859.86
9.40
162,731
90
5
57.0
22.0
Tue, Dec 01, 2020
6862.67
6.59
169,267
0
26
44.0
11.0
Sun, Dec 01, 2019
6901.38
-32.12
288,626
28
41
n/a
n/a
Sat, Dec 01, 2018
6862.77
6.49
169,505
48
30
n/a
n/a
Fri, Dec 01, 2017
6901.56
-32.30
289,298
78
41
n/a
n/a
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
6903.44
-34.18
296,374
56
30
n/a
n/a
Tue, Dec 01, 2015
6888.18
-18.92
242,012
3
31
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6882.94
-13.68
230,688
43
28
45.1
20.8


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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