McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 179 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 49% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6869.51 on Saturday, March 28th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Jan 8, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 59.49 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 48.94% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 40,684 acre feet

This is 99.07% of the average of 41,066 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,284 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 11,225 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 34,400 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 218.94% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 299.72% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -9.55 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 5.38 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 1.82 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Mar 28, 2026
6869.51
0.44
186,474
780
28
72.5
43.7
Fri, Mar 27, 2026
6869.07
0.50
185,314
865
28
77.4
45.7
Thu, Mar 26, 2026
6868.57
0.46
184,004
862
28
77.4
52.3
Wed, Mar 25, 2026
6868.11
0.31
182,808
712
28
81.9
50.0
Tue, Mar 24, 2026
6867.80
0.19
182,006
552
28
78.6
48.7
Mon, Mar 23, 2026
6867.61
0.17
181,516
520
27
73.8
46.8
Sun, Mar 22, 2026
6867.44
0.16
181,079
495
26
75.7
51.1
Sat, Mar 21, 2026
6867.28
0.05
180,669
352
26
81.9
46.8
Fri, Mar 20, 2026
6867.23
0.01
180,541
300
26
81.1
45.9
Thu, Mar 19, 2026
6867.22
-0.15
180,516
108
26
79.5
40.5
Wed, Mar 18, 2026
6867.37
-0.10
180,900
156
27
75.9
37.2
Tue, Mar 17, 2026
6867.47
-0.12
181,157
128
27
67.8
34.5
Mon, Mar 16, 2026
6867.59
-0.10
181,465
110
23
54.5
26.4
Sun, Mar 15, 2026
6867.69
-0.04
181,722
122
15
43.7
25.9
Averages of List
6867.85
0.13
182,155
433.0
25.9
73.0
42.5

Averages for March 28th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.18
-16.67
250,473
508.88
102.95
59.09
30.46

Last 10 March 28th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, Mar 28, 2025
6879.06
-9.55
213,319
258
10
65.4
45.2
Thu, Mar 28, 2024
6901.86
-32.35
290,420
69
76
56.6
33.3
Tue, Mar 28, 2023
6870.68
-1.17
189,593
115
11
51.1
19.0
Mon, Mar 28, 2022
6864.76
4.75
174,334
436
7
64.0
28.0
Sun, Mar 28, 2021
6862.61
6.90
169,124
82
25
58.0
25.0
Sat, Mar 28, 2020
6899.32
-29.81
281,009
20
51
46.0
19.0
Thu, Mar 28, 2019
6861.23
8.28
165,878
507
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, Mar 28, 2018
6898.51
-29.00
278,047
31
67
n/a
n/a
Tue, Mar 28, 2017
6915.27
-45.76
343,431
1209
74
n/a
n/a
Mon, Mar 28, 2016
6894.23
-24.72
262,712
296
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6884.90
-15.39
237,205
329
58
54.9
30.2


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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