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Blue Mesa, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Montrose

Blue Mesa




Water Summary
Today is day 76 of 365 for water year 2026. We are 21% through the Water Year.
Last Reading: 7466.56 on Monday, December 15th, 2025
Blue Mesa was last within 3" of this elevation on Dec 14, 2025

Elevation & Content Water Inflow Data Blue Mesa Dam Release Data
Blue Mesa is 52.84 feet below Full Pool (Elevation 7519.40 )

By content, Blue Mesa is 49.26% of Full Pool (829,500 af)
Total inflows for water year 2026: 89,964 acre feet

This is 107.67% of the average of 83,553 acre feet
Total releases for water year 2026: 97,810 acre feet

This is % of last year's release of 797,484 acre feet
During WY 2026, water storage has fallen by 149,567 AF and total outflows have exceeded total inflows by 7,846 AF
Inflows for WY 2026 are 107.6% of WY 2025          Rivers feeding Blue Mesa are running at 119.59% of the avg. Click for Details

Blue Mesa is down -16.46 feet from one year ago.    Blue Mesa is up 2.55 feet from the low for water year.

View CFS     Last 14 Measurements
Blue Mesa is up 0.69 feet over these measurements

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION CHANGE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Mon, Dec 15, 2025
7466.56
0.02
408,651
766
631
41.0
17.1
Sun, Dec 14, 2025
7466.54
0.01
408,520
718
649
40.5
16.2
Sat, Dec 13, 2025
7466.53
-0.06
408,455
232
619
41.0
17.8
Fri, Dec 12, 2025
7466.59
0.15
408,847
1583
599
40.3
14.7
Thu, Dec 11, 2025
7466.44
0.13
407,867
1127
274
41.5
18.5
Wed, Dec 10, 2025
7466.31
0.13
407,019
863
10
40.3
19.6
Tue, Dec 09, 2025
7466.18
0.15
406,173
992
12
38.7
8.8
Mon, Dec 08, 2025
7466.03
0.05
405,197
762
432
31.8
10.8
Sun, Dec 07, 2025
7465.98
-0.03
404,872
877
1065
28.6
5.0
Sat, Dec 06, 2025
7466.01
0.05
405,067
1006
676
32.5
16.5
Fri, Dec 05, 2025
7465.96
0.02
404,742
922
787
28.2
4.1
Thu, Dec 04, 2025
7465.94
0.02
404,612
776
641
28.6
6.6
Wed, Dec 03, 2025
7465.92
0.05
404,482
994
664
29.5
12.7
Tue, Dec 02, 2025
7465.87
0.02
404,158
976
839
33.8
7.5
Averages of List
7466.20
0.05
406,333
899.6
564.1
35.5
12.6

Averages for December 15th

AVERAGE TYPE ELEVATION CUR ELEV vs AVG FOR DATE CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Since Filled (07-03-1970)
7482.69
-16.13
534,101
823.73
1872.50
28.96
5.43
All-Time
7483.09
-16.53
536,882
822.77
1906.07
28.96
5.43

Last 10 December 15th's data records

DATE MEASURED ELEVATION TODAY vs THEN CONTENT INFLOW (af) OUTFLOW (af) HIGH TEMP LOW TEMP
Sun, Dec 15, 2024
7483.02
-16.46
524,312
841
938
31.1
11.3
Fri, Dec 15, 2023
7491.68
-25.12
590,879
879
1742
33.3
4.9
Thu, Dec 15, 2022
7445.86
20.70
287,125
680
887
17.8
-8.0
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
7433.21
33.35
225,413
661
520
29.0
8.0
Tue, Dec 15, 2020
7464.50
2.06
395,327
579
702
22.0
-2.0
Sun, Dec 15, 2019
7495.06
-28.50
621,275
1043
3039
39.0
13.0
Sat, Dec 15, 2018
7437.42
29.14
246,856
561
557
21.0
-13.0
Fri, Dec 15, 2017
7495.87
-29.31
627,772
716
2640
39.0
1.0
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
7492.10
-25.54
597,780
1069
1069
48.0
26.0
Tue, Dec 15, 2015
7498.34
-31.78
647,760
1174
2717
24.0
6.0
Averages of List
7473.65
-7.09
475,912
857
1376
26.3
0.6


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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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