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Blue Mesa, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Montrose

Blue Mesa




Water Summary
Today is day 140 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 38% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7481.41 on Monday, February 17th, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on Feb 16, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 37.99 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 61.77% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 134,616 acre feet

This is 99.19% of the average of 135,709 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 178,682 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 990,435 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has fallen by 45,829 AF and total outflows have exceeded total inflows by 44,066 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 88.82% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 175.87% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is down -6.64 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is at low for water year and down 6.08 feet from the high.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is down -0.41 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Feb 17, 2025
7481.41
-0.04
512,389
n/a
n/a
35.3
25.2
Sun, Feb 16, 2025
7481.45
512,684
n/a
n/a
32.5
6.7
Thu, Feb 13, 2025
7481.47
-0.06
512,832
392
612
27.3
-10.0
Wed, Feb 12, 2025
7481.53
-0.04
513,276
527
672
16.5
-1.4
Tue, Feb 11, 2025
7481.57
-0.10
513,572
414
784
30.7
3.2
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
7481.67
-0.01
514,312
535
569
36.6
16.5
Sun, Feb 09, 2025
7481.68
-0.02
514,386
502
573
30.6
14.2
Sat, Feb 08, 2025
7481.70
-0.04
514,534
467
613
34.4
21.2
Fri, Feb 07, 2025
7481.74
-0.04
514,830
445
591
38.5
16.2
Thu, Feb 06, 2025
7481.78
-0.05
515,126
466
649
35.4
17.9
Wed, Feb 05, 2025
7481.83
0.01
515,497
598
557
39.0
19.0
Tue, Feb 04, 2025
7481.82
-0.06
515,423
373
594
41.6
23.5
Mon, Feb 03, 2025
7481.88
-0.02
515,867
533
604
39.6
11.5
Sun, Feb 02, 2025
7481.90
-0.05
516,016
404
588
41.7
21.6
Averages of List
7481.67
-0.04
514,339
471.3
617.2
34.3
13.2

Averages for February 17th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7473.60
7.81
466,241
403.61
925.11
30.52
3.61
All-Time
7473.72
7.69
466,943
405.05
963.82
30.52
3.61

Last 10 February 17th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Feb 17, 2024
7488.05
-6.64
562,532
578
612
30.0
2.1
Fri, Feb 17, 2023
7447.79
33.62
297,337
315
365
36.0
-12.1
Thu, Feb 17, 2022
7436.04
45.37
238,510
349
110
29.0
7.0
Wed, Feb 17, 2021
7465.47
15.94
401,567
375
371
21.0
-8.0
Mon, Feb 17, 2020
7484.87
-3.46
542,078
528
751
35.0
24.0
Sun, Feb 17, 2019
7437.79
43.62
248,660
271
318
26.0
-20.0
Sat, Feb 17, 2018
7485.96
-4.55
550,314
443
592
43.0
14.0
Fri, Feb 17, 2017
7489.67
-8.26
578,780
390
1052
25.0
1.0
Wed, Feb 17, 2016
7488.73
-7.32
571,504
487
989
26.0
0.0
Tue, Feb 17, 2015
7485.36
-3.95
545,773
460
494
33.0
0.0
Averages of List
7470.94
10.47
453,439
429
560
37.3
5.8


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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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