McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 13 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 4% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6865.31 on Monday, October 13th, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Sep 30, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 63.69 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 46.11% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 4,364 acre feet

This is 110.76% of the average of 3,940 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 702 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 42,027 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 3,662 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 1246.51% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 933.67% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -12.63 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 1.18 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.01 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Oct 13, 2025
6865.31
0.36
175,696
500
25
60.3
44.2
Sun, Oct 12, 2025
6864.95
0.46
174,803
633
25
64.2
46.6
Sat, Oct 11, 2025
6864.49
0.30
173,669
413
25
62.4
52.5
Fri, Oct 10, 2025
6864.19
0.06
172,934
118
27
64.9
54.3
Thu, Oct 09, 2025
6864.13
-0.04
172,788
72
28
69.1
53.2
Wed, Oct 08, 2025
6864.17
-0.10
172,885
62
28
74.7
52.7
Tue, Oct 07, 2025
6864.27
-0.13
173,130
59
28
75.7
41.0
Mon, Oct 06, 2025
6864.40
-0.13
173,448
71
28
72.7
40.8
Sun, Oct 05, 2025
6864.53
-0.13
173,767
71
28
68.9
42.4
Sat, Oct 04, 2025
6864.66
-0.14
174,087
54
28
69.1
46.6
Fri, Oct 03, 2025
6864.80
-0.16
174,432
40
28
78.4
51.3
Thu, Oct 02, 2025
6864.96
-0.17
174,828
51
28
80.1
46.6
Wed, Oct 01, 2025
6865.13
-0.17
175,249
56
28
76.1
49.1
Tue, Sep 30, 2025
6865.30
-0.18
175,671
47
27
73.9
52.7
Averages of List
6864.66
-0.01
174,099
160.5
27.2
70.8
48.1

Averages for October 13th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.87
-21.56
247,067
147.95
44.36
65.50
36.42

Last 10 October 13th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Oct 13, 2024
6877.94
-12.63
210,012
12
39
79.3
48.3
Fri, Oct 13, 2023
6904.71
-39.40
301,214
34
47
61.5
27.7
Thu, Oct 13, 2022
6868.39
-3.08
183,535
133
25
72.9
38.3
Wed, Oct 13, 2021
6858.14
7.17
158,857
93
5
45.0
30.0
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
6863.70
1.61
171,742
27
25
74.0
30.0
Sun, Oct 13, 2019
6902.74
-37.43
293,726
10
50
n/a
n/a
Sat, Oct 13, 2018
6862.58
2.73
169,052
79
32
n/a
n/a
Fri, Oct 13, 2017
6902.96
-37.65
294,557
47
40
n/a
n/a
Thu, Oct 13, 2016
6903.35
-38.04
296,032
81
37
n/a
n/a
Tue, Oct 13, 2015
6889.18
-23.87
245,349
58
39
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6883.27
-17.96
232,094
57
34
69.8
37.2


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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