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Hodenpyl Dam, Michigan
Hodenpyl Dam sits above the Tippy Dam, which is the ceiling for the Manistee River, so no lake run reaches this water.
Open in BirdTrout44.363, -85.82 · Wexford County · NID MI00174. Tap the map to open this water in the live app.
What the runs do here
No lake run reaches this dam. The Manistee River's anadromous ceiling is the Tippy Dam, downstream of here — fish out of Lake Michigan stop there, so salmon and steelhead never arrive at this structure and a run calendar on this page would be an invention.
The structure
- Owner
- Consumers Energy Company Public Utility
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Completed
- 1925
- Type
- Gravity
- Height
- 90 ft
- Length
- 4270 ft
- Spillway
- Controlled
- Storage
- 39,684 acre-ft · 1,798 acre pool
- Drainage
- 1,018 sq mi
- Condition
- Fair · High hazard potential
- Status
- Under Remediation
From the National Inventory of Dams (USACE). Hazard potential is a downstream-consequence classification, not a statement about the structure's condition.
The water above and below
- Manistee River 0.03 mi from the dam · Cold transitional large river (MDNR VSEC) · typed Cold-transitional
Coldwater designation is the state's own classification. A dam sits on one river and this list is every designated reach within a mile and a half of it, so a tributary mouth shows up here too.
Water right now
| Gauge | Distance | Temp | Flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manistee River near Mesick, MI | 0.0 mi | 62.4 °F | 1,110 cfs |
| Manistee River near Sherman, MI | 7.8 mi | 54.7 °F | 945 cfs |
| Manistee River near Wellston, MI | 9.3 mi | 63.0 °F | 1,490 cfs |
Live from USGS. A gauge miles away is a gauge miles away — the distance column is there so you can discount it. A hydro dam's releases move the flow below it on a schedule the gauge sees and this page does not.
Getting to it
- Manistee River Woodpecker Creek 0.5 mi · walk in
- Lemon Lake 7.5 mi · boat launch · Lemon Lake
Public access sites near the dam, straight-line distance. A dam itself is private property unless its owner says otherwise; these are the places the state lists as open.
Fly shops nearby
- Andy's Tackle Box 10.2 mi · Brethren
- Schmidt Outfitters 12.3 mi · Wellston
- Hawkins Outfitters 29.1 mi · Traverse City
- The Northern Angler 29.3 mi · Traverse City · +1-231-933-4730
- Streamside Orvis 29.3 mi · Traverse City