Sanchez Reservoir water level today
Storage at Sanchez Reservoir in the Rio Grande basin (Division 3), from Colorado DWR's daily reading.
About Sanchez Reservoir
Sanchez 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 Sanchez Ditch & Reservoir Co.. Its recorded capacity is 103,151 acre-feet, the largest of the 5 and 40% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 2,450 acre-feet, 2% of that capacity, with room for about 100,701 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage fell by 1 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 SANRESCO; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Rio Grande near Lobatos, about 19 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
- Continental Reservoir · 60% 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