McPhee Water Database

McPhee Reservoir, Dolores River, Telluride, SW Colorado

McPhee




Water Summary
Today is day 62 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 17% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 6869.26 on Monday, December 1st, 2025
McPhee was last within 3" of this elevation on Nov 30, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data McPhee Dam Release Data
McPhee is 59.74 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 6929.00 )

By content, McPhee is 48.76% of Full Pool (381,051 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 17,239 acre feet

This is 127.23% of the average of 13,549 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 2,491 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 20,615 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 31,909 AF yet total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 14,748 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 262.24% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding McPhee are running at 101.36% of the avg. Click for Details

McPhee is down -8.07 feet from one year ago.    McPhee is at high for water year and up 5.13 feet from the low.

View CFS     Last 14 Measurements
McPhee is up 0.44 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Dec 01, 2025
6869.26
0.01
185,814
89
30
42.4
22.1
Sun, Nov 30, 2025
6869.25
0.01
185,787
67
30
44.2
26.2
Sat, Nov 29, 2025
6869.24
0.06
185,761
200
30
44.4
28.4
Fri, Nov 28, 2025
6869.18
0.03
185,603
121
30
53.4
31.3
Thu, Nov 27, 2025
6869.15
0.01
185,524
67
30
52.9
31.5
Wed, Nov 26, 2025
6869.14
-0.01
185,498
16
30
48.6
28.0
Tue, Nov 25, 2025
6869.15
0.04
185,524
147
30
48.6
28.0
Mon, Nov 24, 2025
6869.11
0.04
185,419
149
30
42.6
27.5
Sun, Nov 23, 2025
6869.07
0.10
185,314
307
30
41.9
34.7
Sat, Nov 22, 2025
6868.97
0.01
185,051
71
30
52.9
31.8
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
6868.96
0.03
185,025
125
30
45.0
32.9
Thu, Nov 20, 2025
6868.93
0.08
184,946
254
30
49.5
37.4
Wed, Nov 19, 2025
6868.85
0.03
184,736
123
30
53.2
36.7
Tue, Nov 18, 2025
6868.82
0.03
184,658
125
30
51.8
29.7
Averages of List
6869.08
0.03
185,333
132.9
30.0
48.0
30.4

Averages for December 1st

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
All-Time
6886.39
-17.13
245,101
156.98
83.35
45.87
22.57

Last 10 December 1st's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Dec 01, 2024
6877.33
-8.07
208,228
61
50
46.9
26.6
Fri, Dec 01, 2023
6903.49
-34.23
296,563
63
79
36.7
28.0
Thu, Dec 01, 2022
6868.72
0.54
184,396
56
18
48.2
25.7
Wed, Dec 01, 2021
6859.86
9.40
162,731
179
10
57.0
22.0
Tue, Dec 01, 2020
6862.67
6.59
169,267
0
52
44.0
11.0
Sun, Dec 01, 2019
6901.38
-32.12
288,626
56
81
n/a
n/a
Sat, Dec 01, 2018
6862.77
6.49
169,505
95
60
n/a
n/a
Fri, Dec 01, 2017
6901.56
-32.30
289,298
155
81
n/a
n/a
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
6903.44
-34.18
296,374
111
60
n/a
n/a
Tue, Dec 01, 2015
6888.18
-18.92
242,012
6
61
n/a
n/a
Averages of List
6882.94
-13.68
230,688
86
55
45.1
20.8


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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 - Acre Feet per day
Outflow - Acre Feet per day
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