McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 138 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 38% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6867.91 on Sunday, February 15th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Oct 27, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 61.09 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 47.84% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 23,719 acre feet

This is 100.2% of the average of 23,672 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 4,760 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 7,041 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 18,959 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 205.45% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 68.00% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -9.65 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 1.48 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -1.08 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Feb 15, 2026
6867.91
-0.17
182,290
-4
15
52.2
28.9
Sat, Feb 14, 2026
6868.08
-0.10
182,730
88
15
52.2
27.5
Fri, Feb 13, 2026
6868.18
-0.08
182,989
115
15
48.4
35.4
Thu, Feb 12, 2026
6868.26
-0.11
183,197
78
15
50.2
35.1
Wed, Feb 11, 2026
6868.37
-0.15
183,483
25
15
53.4
34.0
Tue, Feb 10, 2026
6868.52
-0.12
183,874
63
15
57.4
30.4
Mon, Feb 09, 2026
6868.64
-0.12
184,187
30
15
57.2
32.2
Sun, Feb 08, 2026
6868.76
-0.06
184,501
39
14
58.3
33.6
Sat, Feb 07, 2026
6868.82
-0.06
184,658
39
14
53.2
34.9
Fri, Feb 06, 2026
6868.88
-0.05
184,815
53
14
53.2
30.9
Thu, Feb 05, 2026
6868.93
-0.04
184,946
46
15
53.1
33.3
Wed, Feb 04, 2026
6868.97
-0.02
185,051
25
15
50.7
27.7
Tue, Feb 03, 2026
6868.99
0.00
185,104
51
15
52.2
27.9
Mon, Feb 02, 2026
6868.99
-0.02
185,104
25
15
52.7
31.5
Averages of List
6868.59
-0.08
184,066
48.1
14.8
53.2
31.7

Averages for February 15th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.61
-18.7
245,816
82.26
37.48
38.97
21.35

Last 10 February 15th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Feb 15, 2025
6877.56
-9.65
208,899
1
25
36.3
23.0
Thu, Feb 15, 2024
6902.40
-34.49
292,446
46
40
46.0
31.3
Wed, Feb 15, 2023
6869.00
-1.09
185,130
37
9
25.3
6.9
Tue, Feb 15, 2022
6861.92
5.99
167,491
58
5
53.0
25.0
Mon, Feb 15, 2021
6861.91
6.00
167,468
34
25
21.0
13.0
Sat, Feb 15, 2020
6901.09
-33.18
287,546
48
41
n/a
n/a
Fri, Feb 15, 2019
6862.55
5.36
168,981
79
30
n/a
n/a
Thu, Feb 15, 2018
6900.25
-32.34
284,432
29
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, Feb 15, 2017
6903.26
-35.35
295,691
174
31
n/a
n/a
Mon, Feb 15, 2016
6889.87
-21.96
247,672
124
31
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6882.97
-15.06
230,560
50
28
37.8
17.1


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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