Little Sodus Bay

Click map to enlarge. Watershed boundary in red.

 

Watershed Characteristics

	km2	Acres
Watershed area (including bay)	11.517	2846
Watershed area (excluding bay)	8.56	2114
Area of bay	2.96	731

 

Maps and Data

• Bathymetric map. Deepest point: 11.3m (37 feet); when lake level is 74.67 meters based on the IGLD-1985 datum.
• Hypsographic curve and data.
• Landcover.
• Stream network: there are no perennial streams in the Little Sodus Bay watershed.
• Road network. Total length of roads: 34.3 km (21.27 miles).
• Digital elevation model. Lowest elevation: 75m. Highest elevation: 126m.
• Shaded relief map.
• Field sampling locations.
• Stream sampling locations, subwatershed delineation, and landcover: there are no perennial streams in the Little Sodus Bay watershed.

 

Drainage Basin Characterization

POND/LAKE MOUTH ELEVATION	75 m
MEAN DAILY DISCHARGE	0.154 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