McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 169 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 46% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6867.37 on Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Mar 17, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 61.63 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 47.47% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 29,685 acre feet

This is 89.71% of the average of 33,090 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 5,746 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 5,651 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 23,939 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 185.13% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 145.45% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -11.02 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 2.02 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -0.50 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, Mar 18, 2026
6867.37
-0.10
180,900
156
27
75.9
37.2
Tue, Mar 17, 2026
6867.47
-0.12
181,157
129
27
67.8
34.5
Mon, Mar 16, 2026
6867.59
-0.10
181,465
110
23
54.5
26.4
Sun, Mar 15, 2026
6867.69
-0.04
181,722
122
15
43.7
25.9
Sat, Mar 14, 2026
6867.73
-0.04
181,826
122
15
64.9
37.6
Fri, Mar 13, 2026
6867.77
-0.05
181,929
110
15
64.6
33.3
Thu, Mar 12, 2026
6867.82
-0.03
182,058
120
15
62.2
32.2
Wed, Mar 11, 2026
6867.85
-0.03
182,135
85
15
57.7
33.8
Tue, Mar 10, 2026
6867.88
0.01
182,213
113
15
64.6
34.5
Mon, Mar 09, 2026
6867.87
0.01
182,187
91
15
63.7
32.0
Sun, Mar 08, 2026
6867.86
-0.02
182,161
52
15
57.9
25.3
Sat, Mar 07, 2026
6867.88
0.01
182,213
91
15
49.6
24.6
Fri, Mar 06, 2026
6867.87
0.00
182,187
77
15
43.5
27.1
Thu, Mar 05, 2026
6867.87
0.08
182,187
182
15
55.4
32.2
Averages of List
6867.75
-0.03
181,881
111.4
17.3
59.0
31.2

Averages for March 18th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6888.04
-20.67
250,157
347.00
81.29
53.23
26.64

Last 10 March 18th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, Mar 18, 2025
6878.39
-11.02
211,336
82
9
38.2
24.3
Mon, Mar 18, 2024
6902.14
-34.77
291,469
13
75
52.0
32.5
Sat, Mar 18, 2023
6869.65
-2.28
186,844
179
11
43.5
20.5
Fri, Mar 18, 2022
6863.20
4.17
170,535
101
7
54.0
21.0
Thu, Mar 18, 2021
6862.19
5.18
168,128
33
25
56.0
20.0
Wed, Mar 18, 2020
6899.91
-32.54
283,177
121
52
53.0
31.0
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
6860.02
7.35
163,095
116
41
n/a
n/a
Sun, Mar 18, 2018
6898.91
-31.54
279,507
165
67
n/a
n/a
Sat, Mar 18, 2017
6908.00
-40.63
313,988
1753
61
n/a
n/a
Fri, Mar 18, 2016
6892.52
-25.15
256,741
360
53
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6883.63
-16.26
232,969
357
40
51.9
25.6


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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