McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 234 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 64% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6876.77 on Friday, May 22nd, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 21, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 52.23 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.22% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 83,634 acre feet

This is 45.31% of the average of 184,565 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,996 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 31,352 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 76,638 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 109.61% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 17.26% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -13.23 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is down 0.32 feet from the high for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is down -0.03 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, May 22, 2026
6876.77
-0.12
206,601
224
5
71.6
46.2
Thu, May 21, 2026
6876.89
-0.09
206,949
305
n/a
72.9
43.0
Wed, May 20, 2026
6876.98
-0.10
207,210
352
n/a
68.0
44.6
Tue, May 19, 2026
6877.08
-0.01
207,501
412
n/a
65.8
39.6
Mon, May 18, 2026
6877.09
0.00
207,530
432
n/a
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
Sun, May 10, 2026
6876.79
-0.01
206,659
323
7
76.7
45.1
Sat, May 09, 2026
6876.80
-0.07
206,688
300
11
77.5
49.5
Averages of List
6876.91
-0.01
207,005
421.8
5.9
75.1
48.1

Averages for May 22nd

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6904.21
-27.44
308,381
2001.37
895.63
73.60
43.99

Last 10 May 22nd's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, May 22, 2025
6890.00
-13.23
248,112
566
14
83.2
45.7
Wed, May 22, 2024
6906.74
-29.97
309,056
812
51
68.2
42.9
Mon, May 22, 2023
6916.39
-39.62
348,118
3536
37
75.2
51.1
Sun, May 22, 2022
6892.62
-15.85
257,088
842
10
72.0
46.0
Sat, May 22, 2021
6869.62
7.15
186,765
921
11
71.0
46.0
Fri, May 22, 2020
6900.73
-23.96
286,209
764
50
74.0
30.0
Wed, May 22, 2019
6911.51
-34.74
327,991
1237
527
n/a
n/a
Tue, May 22, 2018
6895.43
-18.66
266,958
195
31
n/a
n/a
Mon, May 22, 2017
6916.57
-39.80
348,875
1310
706
n/a
n/a
Sun, May 22, 2016
6916.75
-39.98
349,634
2456
55
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6901.75
-24.98
293,323
1259
180
71.3
45.9


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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