Blind Sodus Bay

Click map to enlarge. Watershed boundary in red.

 

Watershed Characteristics

	km2	Acres
Watershed area (including bay)	36.17	8938
Watershed area (excluding bay)	35.2	8698
Area of bay	0.97	239.7

 

Maps and Data

• Bathymetric map. Deepest point: 7.3m (24 feet); when lake level is 74.67 meters based on the IGLD-1985 datum.
• Hypsographic curve and data.
• Landcover.
• Stream network. Total stream length: 30.49 km (18.95 miles).
• Road network. Total length of roads: 58.18 km (36.15 miles).
• Digital elevation model. Lowest elevation: 75 m. Highest elevation: 137 m.
• Shaded relief map.
• Stream sampling locations, subwatershed delineation, and landcover.

 

Drainage Basin Characterization

DRAINAGE DENSITY	374.74 km/km2
STREAM MOUTH X-COORDINATE	360055.64
STREAM MOUTH Y-COORDINATE	4798947.82
STREAM SOURCE X-COORDINATE	363186.1
STREAM SOURCE Y-COORDINATE	4787489.8
STREAM SOURCE ELEVATION	128 m
STREAM MOUTH ELEVATION	75 m
POND/LAKE MOUTH ELEVATION	75 m
STREAM GRADIENT	0.0037
MAIN CHANNEL LENGTH	14.14 km
MAIN CHANNEL SLOPE	0.0042
PREDICTED BANKFULL MEAN WIDTH	12.19 m
PREDICTED BANKFULL MEAN DEPTH	0.91 m
MEAN DAILY DISCHARGE	0.630 m3/sec

 

Data Sources

Watersheds and bays delineated using ArcHydro.
Landcover taken from 30m resolution EPA MRLC raster data. Area values will not coincide exactly with vector based watershed area values.
Total length of streams and roads in the watershed from 1999 Census TIGER line data (metadata).
Elevation calculated from USGS 10m digital elevation model (DEM).

*all data updated 08/05