Turquoise Lake water level today
Storage at Turquoise Lake in the Arkansas basin (Division 2), from Colorado DWR's daily reading.
About Turquoise Lake
Turquoise Lake is one of the 4 reservoirs BasinMind follows in the Arkansas basin, Division 2 of Colorado's seven water divisions. BasinMind's registry lists its operator as USBR (Fryingpan-Arkansas). Its recorded capacity is 129,440 acre-feet, the fourth-largest of the 4 and 13% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 70,132 acre-feet, 54% of that capacity, with room for about 59,308 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage fell by 3,787 acre-feet. Taken together, the division's reservoirs with a current reading stood at 36% of capacity (353,492 of 974,018 acre-feet).
Daily storage comes from the Colorado Division of Water Resources, DWR station TURQLACO; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Arkansas River near Leadville, 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 Arkansas basin
- Pueblo Reservoir · 44% full
- Twin Lakes · 71% full
- John Martin Reservoir · 8% full
Stream gauges in the Arkansas basin
- Arkansas River at Parkdale
- Arkansas River near Leadville
- East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville
- Arkansas River near Nathrop
- Arkansas River at Portland
- Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo
- Arkansas River near Avondale
- Arkansas River at La Junta