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2007-10-05

STREAMPlan 1.0

Spreadsheet Tool for River Environmental Assessment Management and Planning

Another HHWQ tool...

StreamPlan is a spreadsheet application for policy analysis of alternative water quality management strategies at a river basin level. Strategies include uniform emission reduction and effluent standard based strategies, ambient water quality criteria and least-cost strategies, total emission reduction under minimized costs, mixed strategies, local and regional policies, and strategies with economic instruments. StreamPlan includes a detailed model of wastewater generation at the municipal level with a water quality model and policy analysis tools at the river basin scale.

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/WAT/docs/stream.html

2007-10-01

SSIIM for Windows

The Sediment Simulation In Intakes with Multiblock option model (SSIIM) is for teaching and research for hydraulic/river/sedimentation engineering. It solves the Navier-Stokes equations using the control volume method with the SIMPLE algorithm and the k-epsilon turbulence model. It also solves the convection-diffusion equation for sediment transport, using van Rijn's formula for the bed boundary. A water quality module is included.

The software application has an interactive graphical grid editor creating a structured grid. The post-processor includes vector graphics, contour plots, profiles, etc which can run simultaneously with the solver, enabling viewing of intermediate result. A post-processor viewing coloured surfaces in 3D is also made, as a separate program.

The software has been around for a while, but a new version for MS Windows has been recently released (2007 September 26), so I thought I would post on it. (I have not tried the latest release, but it would need to be a signficant improvement for SSIIM to have surpassed CCHE2D).

SSIIM can be downloaded from "http://folk.ntnu.no/nilsol/ssiimwin/".

USDA NRCS engineering documents available

The USDA NRCS has many engineering analysis and design documents available download and use.

Topics include: Agriculture, Conservation, Construction, Dams, Drafting/Drawings, Drainage, Ecology, Geology, Hydraulics, Hydrology, Irrigation, Landscape Architecture, Quality Assurance, Sediment, Soils, Specifications, Stormwater Management, Streams/Channels, Structures, Surveying, Water Supply, Water Quality

These are available for download at "http://www.info.usda.gov/CED/".