McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 218 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 60% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6876.92 on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 5, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 52.08 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.33% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 70,841 acre feet

This is 56.18% of the average of 126,086 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,887 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 31,787 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 63,954 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 128.45% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 15.41% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -10.57 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 0.15 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.63 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
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
20
60.8
44.9
Mon, May 04, 2026
6877.02
-0.05
207,326
205
6
65.3
45.5
Sun, May 03, 2026
6877.07
0.05
207,472
282
6
69.8
39.7
Sat, May 02, 2026
6877.02
0.04
207,326
249
6
63.7
39.2
Fri, May 01, 2026
6876.98
0.05
207,210
268
6
62.4
36.5
Thu, Apr 30, 2026
6876.93
0.06
207,065
302
6
63.0
44.4
Wed, Apr 29, 2026
6876.87
0.04
206,891
273
6
63.5
42.8
Tue, Apr 28, 2026
6876.83
0.07
206,775
289
6
58.8
38.5
Mon, Apr 27, 2026
6876.76
0.12
206,572
323
6
56.8
39.0
Sun, Apr 26, 2026
6876.64
0.15
206,225
385
6
53.6
43.9
Sat, Apr 25, 2026
6876.49
0.10
205,792
317
5
64.2
47.2
Fri, Apr 24, 2026
6876.39
0.10
205,503
313
5
64.3
37.2
Thu, Apr 23, 2026
6876.29
0.07
205,215
281
5
59.5
37.2
Averages of List
6876.80
0.05
206,683
283.2
7.1
61.6
41.1

Averages for May 6th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6899.42
-22.5
292,479
1676.60
781.09
66.41
34.16

Last 10 May 6th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, May 06, 2025
6887.49
-10.57
239,731
593
15
54.8
38.5
Mon, May 06, 2024
6905.12
-28.20
302,788
673
50
56.8
30.2
Sat, May 06, 2023
6918.12
-41.20
355,440
3705
31
64.6
37.8
Fri, May 06, 2022
6883.19
-6.27
225,909
1251
7
78.0
31.0
Thu, May 06, 2021
6867.45
9.47
181,105
625
10
78.0
27.0
Wed, May 06, 2020
6899.39
-22.47
281,265
1049
51
76.0
35.0
Mon, May 06, 2019
6899.20
-22.28
280,569
2218
41
n/a
n/a
Sun, May 06, 2018
6897.40
-20.48
274,020
347
41
n/a
n/a
Sat, May 06, 2017
6911.73
-34.81
328,882
2577
3978
n/a
n/a
Fri, May 06, 2016
6905.87
-28.95
305,679
1566
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6898.12
-21.20
279,685
1576
303
68.9
36.4


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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