McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 153 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 42% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6867.69 on Monday, March 2nd, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Mar 1, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 61.31 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 47.69% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 26,024 acre feet

This is 98.22% of the average of 26,495 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 5,207 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 6,473 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 20,817 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 193.24% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 51.94% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -10.15 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 1.70 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.02 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Mar 02, 2026
6867.69
0.04
181,722
122
15
66.0
39.6
Sun, Mar 01, 2026
6867.65
0.07
181,619
154
15
66.2
39.0
Sat, Feb 28, 2026
6867.58
0.05
181,439
128
15
57.9
32.2
Fri, Feb 27, 2026
6867.53
0.05
181,311
127
15
59.0
29.1
Thu, Feb 26, 2026
6867.48
0.03
181,182
101
15
59.0
32.7
Wed, Feb 25, 2026
6867.45
0.01
181,105
75
15
56.5
34.7
Tue, Feb 24, 2026
6867.44
0.00
181,079
62
15
54.7
29.8
Mon, Feb 23, 2026
6867.44
-0.03
181,079
17
15
53.1
24.8
Sun, Feb 22, 2026
6867.47
0.00
181,157
51
15
49.5
16.3
Sat, Feb 21, 2026
6867.47
-0.03
181,157
12
15
41.5
16.7
Fri, Feb 20, 2026
6867.50
0.01
181,234
64
15
33.3
17.4
Thu, Feb 19, 2026
6867.49
-0.08
181,208
30
15
27.5
15.1
Wed, Feb 18, 2026
6867.57
-0.10
181,414
89
15
36.0
22.1
Tue, Feb 17, 2026
6867.67
-0.11
181,671
77
15
41.2
31.3
Averages of List
6867.53
-0.01
181,313
79.2
15.0
50.1
27.2

Averages for March 2nd

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.93
-19.24
246,739
126.07
43.57
53.17
27.65

Last 10 March 2nd's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Mar 02, 2025
6877.84
-10.15
209,719
133
35
48.5
34.0
Sat, Mar 02, 2024
6902.31
-34.62
292,108
107
40
54.2
34.7
Thu, Mar 02, 2023
6868.64
-0.95
184,187
79
10
36.3
17.6
Wed, Mar 02, 2022
6862.41
5.28
168,649
73
6
64.0
23.0
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
6861.83
5.86
167,280
32
25
50.0
17.0
Mon, Mar 02, 2020
6900.75
-33.06
286,283
65
49
n/a
n/a
Sat, Mar 02, 2019
6861.61
6.08
166,764
140
36
n/a
n/a
Fri, Mar 02, 2018
6900.14
-32.45
284,026
4
50
n/a
n/a
Thu, Mar 02, 2017
6904.07
-36.38
298,769
92
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, Mar 02, 2016
6890.64
-22.95
250,284
261
31
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6883.01
-15.32
230,765
90
35
49.0
22.6


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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