McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 198 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 54% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6875.40 on Thursday, April 16th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Aug 20, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 53.6 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 53.19% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 59,463 acre feet

This is 84.89% of the average of 70,048 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,609 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 27,416 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 52,854 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 195.9% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 37.65% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -6.51 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 11.27 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 3.34 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, Apr 16, 2026
6875.40
0.23
202,665
379
5
63.9
34.0
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
Averages of List
6873.77
0.27
198,085
433.0
5.0
63.2
37.8

Averages for April 16th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6892.07
-16.67
267,837
1153.44
376.63
63.51
31.11

Last 10 April 16th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, Apr 16, 2025
6881.91
-6.51
221,934
769
26
72.9
43.0
Tue, Apr 16, 2024
6901.46
-26.06
288,925
308
76
61.5
33.8
Sun, Apr 16, 2023
6885.25
-9.85
232,444
2400
52
63.3
34.0
Sat, Apr 16, 2022
6871.33
4.07
191,347
348
7
68.0
25.0
Fri, Apr 16, 2021
6864.11
11.29
172,739
185
15
53.0
21.0
Thu, Apr 16, 2020
6898.31
-22.91
277,319
92
35
62.0
27.0
Tue, Apr 16, 2019
6871.31
4.09
191,293
1533
42
n/a
n/a
Mon, Apr 16, 2018
6898.03
-22.63
276,301
180
41
n/a
n/a
Sun, Apr 16, 2017
6916.51
-41.11
348,623
2159
1198
n/a
n/a
Sat, Apr 16, 2016
6899.93
-24.53
283,251
989
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6889.33
-13.93
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