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Water Summary
Today is day 45 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 12% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7464.97 on Friday, November 14th, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on Nov 13, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 54.43 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 48.02% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 59,338 acre feet

This is 106.21% of the average of 55,870 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 76,902 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 797,484 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 159,875 AF and total outflows have exceeded total inflows by 17,564 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 108.9% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 114.84% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is down -17.51 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is up 0.96 feet from the low for water year.

View CFS     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is up 0.35 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Fri, Nov 14, 2025
7464.97
-0.12
398,343
n/a
n/a
54.9
27.3
Thu, Nov 13, 2025
7465.09
0.01
399,115
1089
1018
53.8
27.9
Wed, Nov 12, 2025
7465.08
-0.01
399,051
910
968
53.6
26.6
Tue, Nov 11, 2025
7465.09
0.01
399,115
1131
1057
52.9
25.7
Mon, Nov 10, 2025
7465.08
-0.02
399,051
1023
1144
53.1
19.9
Sun, Nov 09, 2025
7465.10
0.05
399,180
916
587
47.7
16.0
Sat, Nov 08, 2025
7465.05
0.07
398,858
1023
565
46.4
18.3
Fri, Nov 07, 2025
7464.98
0.05
398,407
916
587
48.7
24.1
Thu, Nov 06, 2025
7464.93
0.08
398,086
1127
605
51.6
29.3
Wed, Nov 05, 2025
7464.85
0.08
397,572
1095
571
56.3
25.7
Tue, Nov 04, 2025
7464.77
0.04
397,058
1029
764
57.6
32.2
Mon, Nov 03, 2025
7464.73
0.07
396,801
1127
668
57.0
33.3
Sun, Nov 02, 2025
7464.66
0.04
396,352
1160
895
61.5
24.6
Sat, Nov 01, 2025
7464.62
0.05
396,096
1075
746
52.7
19.6
Averages of List
7464.93
0.03
398,078
1047.8
782.7
53.4
25.0

Averages for November 14th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7485.60
-20.63
558,138
1088.46
1567.48
45.01
16.40
All-Time
7486.01
-21.04
561,226
1103.91
1585.00
45.01
16.40

Last 10 November 14th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Thu, Nov 14, 2024
7482.48
-17.51
520,324
1111
732
47.1
18.5
Tue, Nov 14, 2023
7491.18
-26.21
586,936
819
1127
53.5
18.7
Mon, Nov 14, 2022
7443.23
21.74
273,555
902
36
33.1
12.4
Sun, Nov 14, 2021
7430.63
34.34
213,795
946
631
58.0
17.0
Sat, Nov 14, 2020
7463.90
1.07
395,718
1079
754
34.0
11.0
Thu, Nov 14, 2019
7499.89
-34.92
660,441
924
2723
53.0
11.0
Wed, Nov 14, 2018
7438.07
26.90
250,030
56
442
28.0
-1.0
Tue, Nov 14, 2017
7500.25
-35.28
663,401
1035
1357
57.0
16.0
Mon, Nov 14, 2016
7493.03
-28.06
605,120
1236
1148
59.0
17.0
Sat, Nov 14, 2015
7501.49
-36.52
673,644
920
1079
46.0
8.0
Averages of List
7474.43
-9.46
484,310
952
931
48.3
12.4


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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 - 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: Blue Mesa Source Data
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