McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 197 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 54% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6875.17 on Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Aug 25, 2022

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 53.83 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 53.01% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 58,712 acre feet

This is 86.65% of the average of 67,758 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,599 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 26,761 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 52,113 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 203.7% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 39.34% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -6.33 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 11.04 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 3.48 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, Apr 15, 2026
6875.17
0.23
202,010
388
5
62.8
33.4
Tue, Apr 14, 2026
6874.94
0.21
201,356
351
5
51.3
33.6
Mon, Apr 13, 2026
6874.73
0.28
200,762
437
5
58.3
36.1
Sun, Apr 12, 2026
6874.45
0.27
199,971
436
5
62.4
37.8
Sat, Apr 11, 2026
6874.18
0.31
199,211
484
5
59.0
44.4
Fri, Apr 10, 2026
6873.87
0.27
198,342
418
5
70.0
45.5
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
Averages of List
6873.51
0.28
197,347
447.1
5.0
62.9
37.9

Averages for April 15th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6891.65
-16.48
266,532
1100.77
327.65
60.03
32.04

Last 10 April 15th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, Apr 15, 2025
6881.50
-6.33
220,675
743
22
71.0
43.5
Mon, Apr 15, 2024
6901.39
-26.22
288,664
397
76
51.4
38.9
Sat, Apr 15, 2023
6883.81
-8.64
227,858
2355
52
57.0
31.5
Fri, Apr 15, 2022
6871.11
4.06
190,752
367
7
64.0
25.0
Thu, Apr 15, 2021
6864.02
11.15
172,520
279
15
59.0
36.0
Wed, Apr 15, 2020
6898.38
-23.21
277,574
87
35
55.0
16.0
Mon, Apr 15, 2019
6870.41
4.76
188,869
1321
41
n/a
n/a
Sun, Apr 15, 2018
6898.08
-22.91
276,483
180
41
n/a
n/a
Sat, Apr 15, 2017
6916.13
-40.96
347,026
2116
1196
n/a
n/a
Fri, Apr 15, 2016
6899.49
-24.32
281,633
1061
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6889.33
-14.16
250,034
1095
153
63.0
37.4


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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