South Sandy Pond

Click map to enlarge. Watershed boundary in red.

 

Watershed Characteristics

	km2	Acres
Watershed area (including bay)	9.49	2346
Watershed area (excluding bay)	8.26	2043
Area of bay	1.23	302.9

 

Maps and Data

• Bathymetric map. Deepest point: 6.4m (21 feet); when lake level is 74.67 meters based on the IGLD-1985 datum.
• Hypsographic curve and data.
• Landcover.
• Stream network. Total stream length: 4.54 km (2.82 miles).
• Road network. Total length of roads: 15.4 km (9.57 miles).
• Digital elevation model. Lowest elevation: 75 m. Highest elevation: 143 m.
• Shaded relief map.
• Field sampling locations.
• Stream sampling locations, subwatershed delineation, and landcover.

 

Drainage Basin Characterization

DRAINAGE DENSITY	0.24 km/km2
STREAM MOUTH X-COORDINATE	405244.26
STREAM MOUTH Y-COORDINATE	4830234.99
STREAM SOURCE X-COORDINATE	408345.66
STREAM SOURCE Y-COORDINATE	4829814.31
STREAM SOURCE ELEVATION	108 m
STREAM MOUTH ELEVATION	75 m
POND/LAKE MOUTH ELEVATION	75 m
STREAM GRADIENT	0.00776
MAIN CHANNEL LENGTH	4.25 km
MAIN CHANNEL SLOPE	0.00722
MEAN DAILY DISCHARGE	0.194 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