Vallecito Reservoir water level today
Storage at Vallecito Reservoir in the San Juan/Dolores basin (Division 7), from Colorado DWR's daily reading.
About Vallecito Reservoir
Vallecito Reservoir is one of the 6 reservoirs BasinMind follows in the San Juan/Dolores basin, Division 7 of Colorado's seven water divisions. BasinMind's registry lists its operator as USBR / Pine River Irrigation District. Its recorded capacity is 129,700 acre-feet, the third-largest of the 6 and 5% of the capacity BasinMind tracks in the division.
On October 3, 2026 it held 60,803 acre-feet, 47% of that capacity, with room for about 68,897 acre-feet more. Over the seven days before, storage rose by 17,384 acre-feet. Taken together, the division's reservoirs with a current reading stood at 51% of capacity (1,210,613 of 2,393,162 acre-feet).
Daily storage comes from the Colorado Division of Water Resources, DWR station VALRESCO; the official record is on that station's page. The nearest stream gauge BasinMind reads is Los Pinos River above Vallecito Reservoir near Bayfield, about 4 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 San Juan/Dolores basin
- Navajo Reservoir · 49% full
- McPhee Reservoir · 44% full
- Lake Nighthorse · 98% full
- Lemon Reservoir · 54% full
- Jackson Gulch Reservoir · 50% full
Stream gauges in the San Juan/Dolores basin
- San Juan River at Four Corners
- Dolores River near Slick Rock
- Dolores River near Bedrock
- Lost Canyon Creek near Dolores
- Animas River at Durango
- Animas River below Durango Pump Plant near Durango
- Animas River below Silverton
- San Juan River near Carracas