McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 193 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 53% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6874.18 on Saturday, April 11th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Aug 23, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 54.82 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 52.28% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 55,514 acre feet

This is 93.29% of the average of 59,506 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,559 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 23,962 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 48,955 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 234.57% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 72.08% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -5.93 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 10.05 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 4.25 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Apr 11, 2026
6874.18
0.31
199,211
484
5
59.0
44.4
Fri, Apr 10, 2026
6873.87
0.27
198,342
418
5
70.0
45.5
Thu, Apr 09, 2026
6873.60
0.26
197,588
445
5
73.2
45.3
Wed, Apr 08, 2026
6873.34
0.20
196,864
406
5
72.1
42.4
Tue, Apr 07, 2026
6873.14
0.24
196,309
448
5
66.9
43.2
Mon, Apr 06, 2026
6872.90
0.24
195,644
454
5
65.8
41.0
Sun, Apr 05, 2026
6872.66
0.30
194,982
440
5
65.5
32.0
Sat, Apr 04, 2026
6872.36
0.30
194,156
437
5
62.8
30.4
Fri, Apr 03, 2026
6872.06
0.37
193,334
539
5
51.1
30.4
Thu, Apr 02, 2026
6871.69
0.38
192,325
577
5
59.0
35.6
Wed, Apr 01, 2026
6871.31
0.56
191,293
819
5
53.6
41.4
Tue, Mar 31, 2026
6870.75
0.39
189,781
623
27
67.8
45.1
Mon, Mar 30, 2026
6870.36
0.43
188,735
663
29
72.1
49.5
Sun, Mar 29, 2026
6869.93
0.42
187,588
724
28
71.4
43.7
Averages of List
6872.30
0.33
194,011
534.1
9.9
65.0
40.7

Averages for April 11th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6890.10
-15.92
261,831
934.16
356.88
66.56
35.74

Last 10 April 11th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, Apr 11, 2025
6880.11
-5.93
216,457
361
10
78.9
42.8
Thu, Apr 11, 2024
6901.14
-26.96
287,732
131
75
62.8
37.8
Tue, Apr 11, 2023
6875.38
-1.20
202,608
2270
50
75.2
50.2
Mon, Apr 11, 2022
6869.94
4.24
187,614
618
7
60.0
26.0
Sun, Apr 11, 2021
6863.55
10.63
171,379
187
14
68.0
25.0
Sat, Apr 11, 2020
6898.45
-24.27
277,829
166
35
62.0
24.0
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
6868.55
5.63
183,952
1004
41
n/a
n/a
Wed, Apr 11, 2018
6898.09
-23.91
276,519
245
41
n/a
n/a
Tue, Apr 11, 2017
6915.29
-41.11
343,514
1122
1189
n/a
n/a
Mon, Apr 11, 2016
6897.85
-23.67
275,648
1164
53
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6887.21
-13.03
243,424
825
152
65.0
38.7


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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