McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 196 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 54% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6874.94 on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Aug 21, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 54.06 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 52.84% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 57,942 acre feet

This is 88.42% of the average of 65,531 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,589 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 26,107 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 51,353 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 211.91% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 47.91% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -6.17 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 10.81 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 3.63 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, Apr 14, 2026
6874.94
0.21
201,356
351
5
51.3
33.6
Mon, Apr 13, 2026
6874.73
0.28
200,762
437
5
58.3
36.1
Sun, Apr 12, 2026
6874.45
0.27
199,971
436
5
62.4
37.8
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
Averages of List
6873.23
0.3
196,581
477.9
5.0
62.2
38.5

Averages for April 14th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6891.21
-16.27
265,232
1065.91
333.63
58.61
33.19

Last 10 April 14th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Apr 14, 2025
6881.11
-6.17
219,484
640
10
69.0
42.6
Sun, Apr 14, 2024
6901.27
-26.33
288,216
312
76
64.9
43.8
Fri, Apr 14, 2023
6882.36
-7.42
223,324
3470
52
53.1
36.3
Thu, Apr 14, 2022
6870.87
4.07
190,104
416
7
56.0
18.0
Wed, Apr 14, 2021
6863.88
11.06
172,179
194
15
67.0
34.0
Tue, Apr 14, 2020
6898.43
-23.49
277,756
114
35
49.0
24.0
Sun, Apr 14, 2019
6869.68
5.26
186,924
900
41
n/a
n/a
Sat, Apr 14, 2018
6898.09
-23.15
276,519
52
41
n/a
n/a
Fri, Apr 14, 2017
6915.77
-40.83
345,518
2019
1194
n/a
n/a
Thu, Apr 14, 2016
6899.02
-24.08
279,910
983
53
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6888.43
-13.49
247,205
891
154
59.6
31.8


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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