McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 236 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 65% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6876.49 on Sunday, May 24th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 23, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 52.51 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.01% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 84,908 acre feet

This is 44.18% of the average of 192,191 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 7,067 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 30,543 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 77,841 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 106.65% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 17.35% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -13.86 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 0.60 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -0.28 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, May 24, 2026
6876.49
-0.16
205,792
267
5
80.1
50.6
Sat, May 23, 2026
6876.65
-0.12
206,254
319
5
75.0
46.2
Fri, May 22, 2026
6876.77
-0.12
206,601
280
5
71.6
46.2
Thu, May 21, 2026
6876.89
-0.09
206,949
305
5
72.9
43.0
Wed, May 20, 2026
6876.98
-0.10
207,210
352
5
68.0
44.6
Tue, May 19, 2026
6877.08
-0.01
207,501
412
5
65.8
39.6
Mon, May 18, 2026
6877.09
0.00
207,530
432
11
59.5
43.7
Sun, May 17, 2026
6877.09
0.07
207,530
541
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
Averages of List
6876.88
-0.02
206,912
423.1
5.5
75.2
48.3

Averages for May 24th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6904.61
-28.12
309,568
1892.19
899.72
73.60
43.17

Last 10 May 24th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, May 24, 2025
6890.35
-13.86
249,298
936
14
78.9
52.7
Fri, May 24, 2024
6906.79
-30.30
309,251
836
51
74.1
45.7
Wed, May 24, 2023
6916.65
-40.16
349,212
3379
24
80.1
53.2
Tue, May 24, 2022
6892.74
-16.25
257,504
633
24
66.0
34.0
Mon, May 24, 2021
6870.01
6.48
187,801
684
11
69.0
31.0
Sun, May 24, 2020
6900.53
-24.04
285,468
613
50
67.0
35.0
Fri, May 24, 2019
6911.61
-35.12
328,396
1453
1198
n/a
n/a
Thu, May 24, 2018
6894.86
-18.37
264,936
218
31
n/a
n/a
Wed, May 24, 2017
6916.86
-40.37
350,098
1735
544
n/a
n/a
Tue, May 24, 2016
6918.25
-41.76
355,994
2228
55
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6902.03
-25.54
294,479
1375
190
75.0
41.5


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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