McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 229 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 63% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6877.09 on Sunday, May 17th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 16, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 51.91 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.46% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 79,140 acre feet

This is 48.03% of the average of 164,768 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,986 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 32,281 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 72,154 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 112.74% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 26.56% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -12.42 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 12.96 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.07 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, May 17, 2026
6877.09
0.07
207,530
n/a
n/a
72.7
50.5
Sat, May 16, 2026
6877.02
0.05
207,326
537
5
79.3
53.6
Fri, May 15, 2026
6876.97
0.07
207,181
610
5
79.7
52.0
Thu, May 14, 2026
6876.90
0.09
206,978
578
5
77.8
49.3
Wed, May 13, 2026
6876.81
0.04
206,717
471
5
83.8
56.7
Tue, May 12, 2026
6876.77
0.00
206,601
443
5
85.6
54.0
Mon, May 11, 2026
6876.77
-0.02
206,601
377
5
80.4
46.2
Sun, May 10, 2026
6876.79
-0.01
206,659
323
7
76.7
45.1
Sat, May 09, 2026
6876.80
-0.07
206,688
300
11
77.5
49.5
Fri, May 08, 2026
6876.87
-0.05
206,891
280
11
78.7
45.5
Thu, May 07, 2026
6876.92
0.00
207,036
265
11
67.3
33.4
Wed, May 06, 2026
6876.92
-0.04
207,036
241
11
56.7
39.6
Tue, May 05, 2026
6876.96
-0.06
207,152
237
n/a
61.5
44.9
Mon, May 04, 2026
6877.02
-0.05
207,326
205
6
65.3
45.5
Averages of List
6876.90
0
206,980
374.4
7.3
74.5
47.6

Averages for May 17th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6902.95
-25.86
304,141
2046.76
759.29
75.46
45.27

Last 10 May 17th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, May 17, 2025
6889.51
-12.42
246,458
642
14
74.9
43.4
Fri, May 17, 2024
6905.73
-28.64
305,138
897
51
76.0
48.9
Wed, May 17, 2023
6917.62
-40.53
353,314
4886
39
75.6
51.1
Tue, May 17, 2022
6890.89
-13.80
251,136
1459
10
83.0
36.0
Mon, May 17, 2021
6868.92
8.17
184,920
745
11
65.0
48.0
Sun, May 17, 2020
6900.35
-23.26
284,802
909
50
81.0
39.0
Fri, May 17, 2019
6908.87
-31.78
317,423
3002
141
n/a
n/a
Thu, May 17, 2018
6896.72
-19.63
271,570
404
40
n/a
n/a
Wed, May 17, 2017
6916.20
-39.11
347,320
2301
803
n/a
n/a
Tue, May 17, 2016
6913.53
-36.44
336,229
1978
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6901.09
-24.00
290,818
1562
121
74.0
46.2


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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