McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 200 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 55% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6875.74 on Saturday, April 18th, 2026
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Apr 17, 2026

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 53.26 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 53.44% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 60,604 acre feet

This is 80.65% of the average of 75,149 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 6,649 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has risen by 28,387 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 53,955 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 180.65% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 27.84% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -7.04 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 11.61 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 3.08 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Apr 18, 2026
6875.74
0.12
203,636
200
5
61.2
23.4
Fri, Apr 17, 2026
6875.62
0.22
203,293
375
15
49.8
29.3
Thu, Apr 16, 2026
6875.40
0.23
202,665
379
5
63.9
34.0
Wed, Apr 15, 2026
6875.17
0.23
202,010
388
5
62.8
33.4
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
Averages of List
6874.27
0.24
199,474
404.4
5.7
63.0
37.2

Averages for April 18th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6892.91
-17.17
270,598
1323.63
451.42
60.53
32.39

Last 10 April 18th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, Apr 18, 2025
6882.78
-7.04
224,628
834
17
43.9
33.0
Thu, Apr 18, 2024
6901.66
-25.92
289,672
465
58
69.8
46.8
Tue, Apr 18, 2023
6890.34
-14.60
249,264
4985
54
62.8
43.5
Mon, Apr 18, 2022
6872.08
3.66
193,389
683
7
73.0
27.0
Sun, Apr 18, 2021
6864.30
11.44
173,203
126
15
55.0
22.0
Sat, Apr 18, 2020
6898.16
-22.42
276,774
92
35
58.0
31.0
Thu, Apr 18, 2019
6874.20
1.54
199,267
2469
42
n/a
n/a
Wed, Apr 18, 2018
6897.94
-22.20
275,975
111
41
n/a
n/a
Tue, Apr 18, 2017
6917.32
-41.58
352,042
2281
1152
n/a
n/a
Mon, Apr 18, 2016
6900.56
-24.82
285,579
659
54
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6890.55
-14.81
253,990
1314
146
62.5
34.2


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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