Cherry Creek Reservoir water level today
Storage at Cherry Creek Reservoir in the South Platte basin (Division 1), from Colorado DWR's daily reading.
About Cherry Creek Reservoir
Cherry Creek Reservoir is one of the 6 reservoirs BasinMind follows in the South Platte basin, Division 1 of Colorado's seven water divisions. BasinMind's registry lists its operator as US Army Corps of Engineers. Its recorded capacity is 13,960 acre-feet (conservation pool), the sixth-largest of the 6 and 3% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 10,832 acre-feet, 78% of that capacity, with room for about 3,128 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage fell by 708 acre-feet. Taken together, the division's reservoirs with a current reading stood at 65% of capacity (259,607 of 400,010 acre-feet).
Daily storage comes from the Colorado Division of Water Resources, DWR station CHRRESCO; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Cherry Creek below Cherry Creek Lake, about 1 miles away in a straight line.
An acre-foot is the water that would cover one acre a foot deep, about 325,851 gallons; percent full compares storage with recorded capacity, not with what is normal for the date (cfs and acre-feet).
Other reservoirs in the South Platte basin
- Horsetooth Reservoir · 79% full
- Carter Lake · 59% full
- Chatfield Reservoir · 56% full
- Spinney Mountain Reservoir · 30% full
- Button Rock (Ralph Price) Reservoir · 96% full
Stream gauges in the South Platte basin
- South Platte River above Cheesman Lake
- South Platte River below Brush Creek near Trumbull
- South Platte River below Union Avenue at Englewood
- South Platte River at Englewood
- South Platte River at 64th Avenue, Commerce City
- South Platte River at Fort Lupton
- South Platte River at Fort Morgan