McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 230 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 63% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6877.09 on Monday, May 18th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on May 17, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 51.91 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 54.46% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 81,070 acre feet

This is 48.04% of the average of 168,757 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 7,045 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 32,281 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 74,025 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 112.89% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 21.79% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -12.67 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 12.96 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.13 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, May 18, 2026
6877.09
0.00
207,530
432
11
59.5
43.7
Sun, May 17, 2026
6877.09
0.07
207,530
541
19
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
Fri, May 08, 2026
6876.87
-0.05
206,891
280
11
78.7
45.5
Thu, May 07, 2026
6876.92
0.00
207,036
265
11
67.3
33.4
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
n/a
61.5
44.9
Averages of List
6876.91
0.01
206,995
402.5
8.5
74.1
47.4

Averages for May 18th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6903.25
-26.16
305,121
1980.40
775.95
71.93
45.87

Last 10 May 18th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, May 18, 2025
6889.76
-12.67
247,301
814
15
63.2
46.3
Sat, May 18, 2024
6905.96
-28.87
306,028
1110
51
76.4
52.6
Thu, May 18, 2023
6917.56
-40.47
353,059
4332
39
73.4
52.5
Wed, May 18, 2022
6891.39
-14.30
252,846
1432
10
83.0
40.0
Tue, May 18, 2021
6868.98
8.11
185,077
662
11
65.0
46.0
Mon, May 18, 2020
6900.46
-23.37
285,208
1029
50
83.0
40.0
Sat, May 18, 2019
6909.72
-32.63
320,801
2274
141
n/a
n/a
Fri, May 18, 2018
6896.49
-19.40
270,744
349
40
n/a
n/a
Thu, May 18, 2017
6916.50
-39.41
348,581
1837
803
n/a
n/a
Wed, May 18, 2016
6914.09
-37.00
338,536
1785
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6901.27
-24.18
291,529
1428
131
73.9
40.7


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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