Blue Mesa Water Database

Blue Mesa, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Montrose

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Water Summary
Today is day 265 of 365 for water year 2025. We are 73% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7490.71 on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on Sep 6, 2024

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 28.69 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 70.31% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2025: 512,951 acre feet

This is 79.52% of the average of 645,064 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2025: 483,454 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 990,435 acre feet
During WY 2025, water storage has risen by 25,022 AF and total inflows have exceeded total outflows by 29,497 AF
Inflows for WY 2025 are 80.15% of WY 2024          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 50.26% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is down -1.73 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is at high for water year and up 11.71 feet from the low.

View Acre Feet     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is up 5.19 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Jun 22, 2025
7490.71
0.31
583,240
2044
796
69.9
44.3
Sat, Jun 21, 2025
7490.40
0.06
580,809
1486
1227
77.1
45.2
Fri, Jun 20, 2025
7490.34
0.26
580,339
1875
827
79.2
40.7
Thu, Jun 19, 2025
7490.08
0.23
578,304
2013
1084
80.9
39.4
Wed, Jun 18, 2025
7489.85
0.29
576,506
2129
966
77.2
35.7
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
Averages of List
7488.62
0.41
567,024
2531.9
917.4
76.7
40.6

Averages for June 22nd

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7497.73
-7.02
648,620
3653.71
1804.76
79.14
41.29
All-Time
7498.04
-7.33
651,149
3656.44
1808.75
79.14
41.29

Last 10 June 22nd's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (cfs) OUTFLOW (cfs) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sat, Jun 22, 2024
7492.44
-1.73
596,894
4917
1106
77.6
41.9
Thu, Jun 22, 2023
7511.63
-20.92
757,749
4931
1838
80.1
36.3
Wed, Jun 22, 2022
7463.27
27.44
387,504
1639
1430
74.0
48.0
Tue, Jun 22, 2021
7464.28
26.43
393,921
1654
1443
86.0
43.0
Mon, Jun 22, 2020
7492.79
-2.08
603,222
1516
1654
82.0
42.0
Sat, Jun 22, 2019
7493.14
-2.43
605,991
8195
667
72.0
44.0
Fri, Jun 22, 2018
7477.80
12.91
490,088
738
1731
84.0
44.0
Thu, Jun 22, 2017
7510.42
-19.71
749,495
6332
1191
86.0
46.0
Wed, Jun 22, 2016
7512.19
-21.48
764,982
3564
662
78.0
46.0
Mon, Jun 22, 2015
7519.15
-28.44
827,494
6086
6615
86.0
41.0
Averages of List
7494.12
-3.41
621,171
3722
1967
77.4
40.8


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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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