Paonia Reservoir water level today
Storage at Paonia Reservoir in the Gunnison basin (Division 4), from Reclamation's daily reading.
About Paonia Reservoir
Paonia Reservoir is one of the 7 reservoirs BasinMind follows in the Gunnison basin, Division 4 of Colorado's seven water divisions. BasinMind's registry lists its operator as USBR / Fire Mountain Canal. Its recorded capacity is 20,950 acre-feet, the sixth-largest of the 7 and 2% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 363 acre-feet, 2% of that capacity, with room for about 20,587 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage rose by 1 acre-feet. Taken together, the division's reservoirs with a current reading stood at 30% of capacity (385,570 of 1,307,616 acre-feet).
Daily storage comes from the Bureau of Reclamation, Reclamation site 945; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Anthracite Creek above Mouth near Somerset, 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 Gunnison basin
- Blue Mesa Reservoir · 15% full
- Morrow Point Reservoir · 93% full
- Crystal Reservoir · 59% full
- Taylor Park Reservoir · 48% full
- Ridgway Reservoir · 75% full
- Silver Jack Reservoir · 9% full
Stream gauges in the Gunnison basin
- Gunnison River near Grand Junction
- Gunnison River at Delta
- Uncompahgre River at Colona
- Uncompahgre River near Ridgway
- Gunnison River below Gunnison Tunnel
- North Fork Gunnison River near Somerset
- Gunnison River near Gunnison
- Tomichi Creek at Gunnison