Continental Reservoir water level today
Storage at Continental Reservoir in the Rio Grande basin (Division 3), from Colorado DWR's daily reading.
About Continental Reservoir
Continental Reservoir is one of the 5 reservoirs BasinMind follows in the Rio Grande basin, Division 3 of Colorado's seven water divisions. BasinMind's registry lists its operator as Santa Maria Reservoir Co.. Its recorded capacity is 26,716 acre-feet, the fourth-largest of the 5 and 10% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 16,130 acre-feet, 60% of that capacity, with room for about 10,586 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage rose by 170 acre-feet. Taken together, the division's reservoirs with a current reading stood at 24% of capacity (61,693 of 256,813 acre-feet).
Daily storage comes from the Colorado Division of Water Resources, DWR station CONRESCO; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Rio Grande near Del Norte, about 43 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 Rio Grande basin
- Rio Grande Reservoir · 35% full
- Platoro Reservoir · 37% full
- Sanchez Reservoir · 2% full
- Terrace Reservoir · 19% full
Stream gauges in the Rio Grande basin
- Rio Grande near Del Norte
- Rio Grande at Alamosa
- Conejos River near Mogote
- Alamosa River below Terrace Reservoir
- Rio Grande near Lobatos