Blue Mesa Water Database

Blue Mesa, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Montrose

Blue Mesa




Water Summary
Today is day 260 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 71% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7489.56 on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on Sep 14, 2024

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 29.84 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 69.23% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 494,014 acre feet

This is 81.49% of the average of 606,253 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 473,735 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 990,435 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has risen by 16,025 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 20,279 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 82.8% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 57.08% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is up 1.21 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is at high for water year and up 10.56 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is up 6.51 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Tue, Jun 17, 2025
7489.56
0.37
574,243
2250
775
75.0
46.9
Mon, Jun 16, 2025
7489.19
0.40
571,363
2451
863
80.1
38.3
Sun, Jun 15, 2025
7488.79
0.48
568,257
2662
767
81.2
39.6
Sat, Jun 14, 2025
7488.31
0.49
564,540
2838
910
78.1
39.1
Fri, Jun 13, 2025
7487.82
0.55
560,758
2989
835
77.3
41.9
Thu, Jun 12, 2025
7487.27
0.59
556,528
3123
823
76.9
45.3
Wed, Jun 11, 2025
7486.68
0.49
552,008
2784
878
74.0
40.0
Tue, Jun 10, 2025
7486.19
0.67
548,267
3638
1048
74.6
35.2
Mon, Jun 09, 2025
7485.52
0.55
543,172
3165
1044
72.2
36.1
Sun, Jun 08, 2025
7484.97
0.59
539,005
3306
1041
73.7
42.3
Sat, Jun 07, 2025
7484.38
0.45
534,551
3292
1566
71.1
39.0
Fri, Jun 06, 2025
7483.93
0.47
531,166
3628
1831
68.0
36.6
Thu, Jun 05, 2025
7483.46
0.41
527,640
3780
2215
64.0
37.8
Wed, Jun 04, 2025
7483.05
0.35
524,574
3932
2596
67.0
42.3
Averages of List
7486.37
0.49
549,719
3131.3
1228.0
73.8
40.0

Averages for June 17th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7495.14
-5.58
627,505
4193.02
1559.91
76.75
40.10
All-Time
7495.49
-5.93
630,261
4172.47
1580.18
76.75
40.10

Last 10 June 17th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Jun 17, 2024
7488.35
1.21
564,849
4584
1025
78.4
36.5
Sat, Jun 17, 2023
7508.27
-18.71
728,337
4853
1861
62.1
30.6
Fri, Jun 17, 2022
7462.12
27.44
380,278
1700
1179
82.0
48.0
Thu, Jun 17, 2021
7463.93
25.63
391,689
1814
1412
88.0
48.0
Wed, Jun 17, 2020
7492.79
-3.23
603,222
1954
1653
79.0
38.0
Mon, Jun 17, 2019
7483.29
6.27
530,244
9679
1305
73.0
39.0
Sun, Jun 17, 2018
7479.13
10.43
499,673
1065
570
69.0
44.0
Sat, Jun 17, 2017
7504.16
-14.60
695,938
6323
1311
82.0
42.0
Fri, Jun 17, 2016
7508.74
-19.18
734,945
4034
669
82.0
37.0
Wed, Jun 17, 2015
7518.59
-29.03
822,369
7559
3306
80.0
48.0
Averages of List
7491.54
-1.98
600,030
4306
1825
75.8
43.1


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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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