McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 209 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 57% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6876.76 on Monday, April 27th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Apr 26, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 52.24 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.21% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 66,187 acre feet

This is 66.8% of the average of 99,080 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,742 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 31,323 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 59,445 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 149.42% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 22.70% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -8.71 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 12.63 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 1.82 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
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
Wed, Apr 22, 2026
6876.22
0.07
205,013
302
5
68.0
47.8
Tue, Apr 21, 2026
6876.15
0.10
204,812
288
5
72.1
50.0
Mon, Apr 20, 2026
6876.05
0.13
204,525
295
5
70.2
48.7
Sun, Apr 19, 2026
6875.92
0.18
204,152
311
5
70.0
33.4
Sat, Apr 18, 2026
6875.74
0.12
203,636
200
5
61.2
23.4
Fri, Apr 17, 2026
6875.62
0.22
203,293
375
15
49.8
29.3
Thu, Apr 16, 2026
6875.40
0.23
202,665
379
5
63.9
34.0
Wed, Apr 15, 2026
6875.17
0.23
202,010
388
5
62.8
33.4
Tue, Apr 14, 2026
6874.94
0.21
201,356
351
5
51.3
33.6
Averages of List
6875.98
0.15
204,341
322.0
5.9
62.0
38.4

Averages for April 27th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6896.53
-19.77
282,901
1359.33
528.40
62.90
38.43

Last 10 April 27th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Apr 27, 2025
6885.47
-8.71
233,152
840
10
62.1
43.3
Sat, Apr 27, 2024
6904.28
-27.52
299,570
672
50
50.5
36.6
Thu, Apr 27, 2023
6906.01
-29.25
306,221
3314
78
70.9
38.1
Wed, Apr 27, 2022
6877.51
-0.75
208,753
617
7
73.0
41.0
Tue, Apr 27, 2021
6865.13
11.63
175,249
310
10
51.0
34.0
Mon, Apr 27, 2020
6897.70
-20.94
275,105
392
51
76.0
37.0
Sat, Apr 27, 2019
6887.88
-11.12
241,019
2989
41
n/a
n/a
Fri, Apr 27, 2018
6897.58
-20.82
274,670
450
41
n/a
n/a
Thu, Apr 27, 2017
6918.97
-42.21
359,074
1659
1983
n/a
n/a
Wed, Apr 27, 2016
6903.24
-26.48
295,616
974
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6895.18
-18.42
269,599
1252
225
68.9
36.5


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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