Blue Mesa Water Database

Blue Mesa, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Montrose

Blue Mesa




Water Summary
Today is day 233 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 64% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7483.42 on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on May 20, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 35.98 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 63.57% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 340,622 acre feet

This is 90.97% of the average of 374,451 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 368,286 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 990,435 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has fallen by 30,877 AF and total outflows have exceeded total inflows by 27,664 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 102.02% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 37.23% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is down -0.79 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is up 4.42 feet from the low for water year.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is up 1.51 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Wed, May 21, 2025
7483.42
0.01
527,341
1364
1309
64.5
29.0
Tue, May 20, 2025
7483.41
0.07
527,266
1413
1132
57.3
26.4
Mon, May 19, 2025
7483.34
0.10
526,742
1528
1134
49.2
33.3
Sun, May 18, 2025
7483.24
0.11
525,994
1554
1122
53.9
37.6
Sat, May 17, 2025
7483.13
0.16
525,171
1676
1057
61.9
33.5
Fri, May 16, 2025
7482.97
0.19
523,976
1941
1210
58.8
29.7
Thu, May 15, 2025
7482.78
0.22
522,559
1933
1091
51.0
27.9
Wed, May 14, 2025
7482.56
0.33
520,919
2524
1271
51.6
33.3
Tue, May 13, 2025
7482.23
0.28
518,465
2211
1148
68.0
38.8
Mon, May 12, 2025
7481.95
0.10
516,386
1882
1493
68.0
35.1
Sun, May 11, 2025
7481.85
0.04
515,645
1629
1464
65.9
31.4
Sat, May 10, 2025
7481.81
0.00
515,349
1256
1240
63.5
26.5
Fri, May 09, 2025
7481.81
-0.10
515,349
1259
1618
61.8
27.2
Thu, May 08, 2025
7481.91
-0.01
516,090
1286
1309
59.8
25.4
Averages of List
7482.60
0.11
521,232
1675.4
1257.0
59.7
31.1

Averages for May 21st

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7476.62
6.8
488,146
3711.07
1659.02
64.87
32.86
All-Time
7476.88
6.54
489,940
3813.58
1624.07
64.87
32.86

Last 10 May 21st's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, May 21, 2024
7484.21
-0.79
533,271
3824
5973
48.6
26.6
Sun, May 21, 2023
7478.53
4.89
491,313
6029
2264
64.6
32.2
Sat, May 21, 2022
7449.74
33.68
307,881
3597
2293
52.0
32.0
Fri, May 21, 2021
7455.61
27.81
340,988
1297
1138
63.0
47.0
Thu, May 21, 2020
7482.86
0.56
527,045
3008
3479
65.0
21.0
Tue, May 21, 2019
7473.47
9.95
459,543
4020
1459
45.0
31.0
Mon, May 21, 2018
7480.00
3.42
505,995
1593
1356
70.0
32.0
Sun, May 21, 2017
7506.20
-22.78
713,193
3338
6972
61.0
28.0
Sat, May 21, 2016
7487.86
-4.44
564,808
2905
4321
71.0
35.0
Thu, May 21, 2015
7495.00
-11.58
620,795
2179
912
60.0
33.0
Averages of List
7479.35
4.07
506,255
3005
3103
62.6
32.4


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Measurements are taken at 11:59 pm of the date listed
Temperature data is from Gunnison, 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: Blue Mesa Source Data
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