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WaterBase is a set of tools from the United Nations University for applying the SWAT model from USDA-ARS: "SWAT is a river basin scale ...

This is a new software package to me. It is apparently intended to be a modular modeling systems with a Windows MS based GUI. All of the mod...

BROOK90 has been updated (2010 November 17). The current version is 4.4g, which I haven't downloaded to try out. I also haven't foun...

SWMM has been updated again (some months ago, actually). The biggest change is that it now allows for 'LID controls'. A couple of bu...

DRAINMOD is similar to EnDrain ( http://www.waterlog.info ) and EAAMOD ( http://www.swet.com/SoftwareEAAMod.html ). "DRAINMOD simulates...

This is a bit out of hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality, but a beneficial software application for those working with land surveying d...

The SSOAP toolbox is a suite of computer software tools used for quantification of RDII and facilitating capacity analysis of sanitary sewer...

Unfortunately, this system is integrated into a proprietary GIS (ESRI ArcGIS), but here it is: SUSTAIN (System for Urban Stormwater Treatmen...

RMAP is an integrated set of calculation tools developed for manipulating, analyzing, visualizing, and archiving data on shoreline positions...

MIT has a program that's been going on for a few years now called OpenCourseWare. In short, the course materials are posted on the www f...

I came across what appears to be a very promising mathematics software application, especially for engineers: SMath Studio. This is a symbol...

From a description by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality: "Software for Understanding Hydrologic Changes in Ecologically-Rel...

From the PC-IHACRES web site; "Identification of unit Hydrographs And Component flows from Rainfall, Evaporation and Streamflow data. P...

From the web site; "PC-QUASAR is a water quality and flow model for river networks. It is designed to be used by river regulatory autho...

The list of links to software along the right side of the weblog has been updated. A few of the links were out of date. I also removed HLW (...

From the WATFLOOD web site; "WATFLOOD is a distributed hydrological model suitable for both flood forecasting and streamflow modeling....

The Hargreaves method to compute daily evaporation has been included in the latest release of SWMM. I am unsure of whether this is the origi...

Roland Oosterbaan was nice enough to write regarding EnDrain (EnDrainW)... "The page http://www.waterlog.info/soft.htm was renamed into...

Big News! "Storage unit nodes have a new optional property named Infiltration that can store Green-Ampt infiltration parameters for the...

Leon Hellberg has written some code to provide interoperability between SWMM, Autocad Civil 3D, and Excel. These are undocumented and - as L...

AutoCAD2EPASWMM is a small AutoCAD script for defining, drawing, and exporting subcatchments from AutoCAD to SWMM. It allows you to select a...

AdcpXP is a customized software developed at The University of Iowa's IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering (IIHR). The software provides ...

A Water Resources Engineering eBook has been posted as a series of PDF files by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur. This ...

Visual AEM was released a few months ago as the successor to Visual Bluebird. Visual AEM is "a graphical user interface for single and ...

The Catchment Modelling Toolkit folks at eWater have released a development of their E2 modeling framework known as WaterCAST. "The int...

ANUGA Hydrodynamic Modeling is a software implementation of a hydrodynamic model which is specifically designed to model wetting and drying ...

The nofdp IDSS is an information and decision support system within the framework of the “nature oriented flood damage prevention” research ...

On the CDM version of SWMM5, Robert Dickinson informs me: "This version is a QA/QC version of SWMM 5 that was used to more closely comp...

Latest update to EPA SWMM released: Version 5 Build 0.012 (5.0.012). Download at "http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/models/swmm/index.htm...

Part 654 (Chapter 14) Stream Restoration Design of the National Engineering Handbook Over 200 practitioners from government, private, and ac...

GOTM is an ambitious name for a one-dimensional water column model for marine and limnological applications. It is coupled to a choice of tr...

GETM is a 3D numerical model simulating the most important hydrodynamic and thermodynamic processes in natural waters. The model is general ...

Evaluation and Modification of Five Techniques for Estimating Stormwater Runoff for Watersheds in West-Central Florida (USGS Water-Resources...

This program contains solutions to the hydraulic equations that are frequently encountered on soil and water conservation activities. All of...

Educational tool for understanding hydraulic behavior of pumping systems. Automatic pump curve viscosity corrections Centrifugal pumps Energ...

WHATIF is software that integrates a number of calculators, tools, and models for assessing the health of watersheds and streams with an emp...

Subsurface/Soil Hydraulics Analysis Software VSAFT2 is a MSWindows Graphical User Interface (GUI) for setting up, running, calibrating, and ...

Study Guide for a Beginning Course in Ground-Water Hydrology, Part 2: Instructor's Guide USGS Open-File Report 92-637 O Lehn Franke, Tho...

Study Guide for a Beginning Course in Ground-Water Hydrology, Part 1: Course Participants USGS Open File Report 90-183 O Lehn Franke, Thomas...

Stormwater Effects Handbook: A Toolbox for Watershed Managers, Scientists, and Engineers G Allen Burton, Jr PhD Robert E Pitt PhD PE http://...

City of Nashville (TN) Site Development Tool (SDT) stormwater software application: aid for engineers designing water quality treatment for ...

Low Impact Development (LID), Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), Green Coving (GC), Minimal Impact Development (MID), Sustainable Urban De...

Low Impact Development Technical Guidance Manual Site Assessment; Site Planning and Layout; Vegetation Protection, Reforestation, and Mainte...

Spreadsheet Tool for River Environmental Assessment Management and Planning Another HHWQ tool... StreamPlan is a spreadsheet application for...

The Sediment Simulation In Intakes with Multiblock option model (SSIIM) is for teaching and research for hydraulic/river/sedimentation engin...

The USDA NRCS has many engineering analysis and design documents available download and use. Topics include: Agriculture, Conservation, Cons...

Software applications for conducting a hydrologic classification of streams, addressing instream flow needs, and assessing past and proposed...

Software applications for estimating micro-habitat conditions in natural channels (depth, velocities, channel indices) and the relative suit...

SPAtially Referenced Regressions On Watershed Attributes SPARROW relates in-stream water-quality measurements to spatially referenced charac...

Everything you ever wanted to know about how to measure water flow: rivers, streams, pipes, canals, weirs, flumes, dilution-tracer, equipmen...

I forgot to add this note some time back... DC Water and Environment (Dorsch Group) provides some very helpful ArcView extension for analysi...

I'm preparing tables to provide a quick guide to "what does what" for the various software applications. A first shot at this ...

For model application in urban watersheds and areas with specific structural stormwater management measures (such as detention basins) http:...

Automation of data acquisition, measurement, and control systems. Accumulate, visualize, and analyze arrays of numeric data. http://datamast...

Water supply system simulation package. System can be configured as a network of nodes and carriers representing reservoirs, demand centres,...

CDM makes available their version version of SWMM5 for download and use. There's a few more options and the GUI element edit boxes have ...

A free and open source alternative to Windows XP: ReactOS is a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows XP compatible operating syste...

Rapid assessment tool for surface water and groundwater interaction: potential impact of groundwater pumping, land use change, etc have on t...

Impact of farm dams on streamflows at a catchment scale. http://www.skmconsulting.com/Markets/environmental/resource_management/TEDI.htm

Runoff and streamflow routing program used to calculate flood hydrographs from rainfall and other channel inputs, applicable to both urban a...

Calculate a pollutant load in kg from kg/Ha/yr export rates (spreadsheet) http://www.urbanwater.info/catchment/audit/KGHAYR%20Export%20Calc...

I know this may seem like a lot of focus on tree stuff, but canopy effects (such as interception) can be mighty important in HHWQ modeiling/...

Another software package useful for developing precipitation interception and canopy evapotranspiration model input parameters. If nothing e...

The i-Tree Storm Damage Assessment Protocol Utility establishes a standard method to assess widespread damage immediately after a severe sto...

For those of you intersted in precipitation interception and canopy evapotranspiration, the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) can be a usefu...

The soil hydraulic parameters for analyzing water movement in variably saturated soil can be determined by fittig soil hydraulic model to a ...

Software from Research Institute for Industrial Crops (SIPEAA Project) WeatherFile: utility to convert weather files of different formats. h...

Geographical Information System (GIS) with tools for estimation and analysis of hydrological, climatic, and geomorphological variables. http...

Graphical User Interface (GUI) for computational models of surface-water hydraulics. The system is both a tool and framework that provides a...

Nonlinear fitting of analytical functions (especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). There are also people using it to re...

Interactive modeling, simulation of dynamic systems, immediate comparisons of live models. OPEN DESIRE is listed as free (other than shippin...

Nice alternative to Microsoft Project. Not a hydrologic, hydraulic, or water quality software application, but - like OpenOffice - a great s...

Easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) for basic data analysis stuff as well as more advanced statistics, chemometrics, and "artifi...

Blatantly commercial, but free to download and use. Very useful software for design of vegetated channels, including analysis reports. http:...

Data translation and conversion application. http://datamonkey.sourceforge.net

Visualization of three-dimensional groundwater flow associated with horizontal wells, partially penetrating wells and fully penetrating well...

* Current-conditions data transmitted from selected surface-water, ground-water, and water-quality sites * Descriptive site information for ...

StreamStats is a Web-based tool that allows users to obtain streamflow statistics, drainage-basin characteristics, and other information for...

Development of the Modular Modeling System appears to be continuing, the a native Microsoft Windows version would be helpful (as opposed to ...

Excellent software for quick estimates of peak runoff * Obtain estimates of flood frequencies for sites in rural (non-regulated) ungaged bas...

Verified Roughness Characteristics of Natural Channels Descriptions of "verified" Manning's roughness coefficients for various...

DHI-WEH produces some excellent hydrology, hydraulic, and water quality software applications. Unfortunately, these are some of the most exp...

NetSTORM is CDM's computer program for precipitation data assessment and rapid long-term urban runoff simulation. * Storage – Treatment ...

Dissertations and theses prepared by graduate students are excellent sources of information on various aspects of hydrology, hydraulics, and...

Reference guide for selecting and carrying out numerous methods of soil analysis. http://viewzoft.com/ebooks/download.asp?arg=1062

City of Emeryville (California) Guidelines Spreadsheet Model http://www.epa.gov/dced/emeryville.htm

NOAA National Weather Service - rain storm data Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) Depth Duration Frequency (DDF) http://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/h...

BioFiltration Swale BioRetention Basin Flow-through Planter Box Lowered Planter Strip Metered Detention http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/Sizin...

Analysis and education tool for irrigation, drainage, infiltration, and salinity management. http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/iwe/wasim/

Bioretention Cell Sizing http://www.lid-stormwater.net/bioretention/bio_sizing.htm

BMP sizing worksheets Calc Sheet General Information Calc Sheet Instructions Calc Sheet (Eldorado County) Calc Sheet (Placer County) Calc Sh...

Blaney-Criddle Water Balance Spreadsheet http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/water/permits/download/blaney.exe Explanation of the Blaney-Criddle Wa...

Spreadsheet implementation of the revitalised FSR/FEH rainfall runoff method (ReFH) http://www.ceh.ac.uk/sections/hrr/Spreadsheetimplementat...

L-THIA (Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment): provides site-specific estimates of changes in runoff, recharge, and nonpoint source pollut...

Basic analysis spreadsheets with pretty neat online tutorial for deaf students... DEAF SUCCEED (Deaf Educational Access For Stimulating Unde...

Rhode Island Cooperative Extension Service spreadsheet model (Not appropriate for use on major industrial or commercial developements as the...

Technical Manual http://www.dnrec.state.de.us/dnrec2000/Divisions/Soil/Stormwater/New/DURMM_TechnicalManual_01-04.pdf User’s Manual http://w...

Worksheet: Computing Tc and CN http://www.ci.knoxville.tn.us/engineering/bmp_manual/ST11-CN.xls Worksheet: Initial detention volume estimate...

RATIONAL: Rational Hydrograph Method for Peak Runoff UDCHANNEL: Urban Flood Channel Design UDCHANNELFLOW: Open Channel Flow Analysis UDCULVE...

Analysis of time-and-date stamp tipping-bucket precipitation records http://ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=3251

Stream flow daily constituent load transport computation http://water.usgs.gov/software/gclas.html

Decision support system for watershed management http://www.epa.gov/athens/wwqtsc/html/warmf.html

Stream Channel Sediment Transport http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/sediment/model/boramep/index.html

Pond Size and Shape Calculator http://unix.eng.ua.edu/~rpitt/SLAMMDETPOND/7c%20pond%20sizer%20and%20shaper.xls Loading and Life of Infiltrat...

Open-Channels: circular conduit calculator and reports application Inlet on Grade: spreadsheet analysis for roadway street section and catch...

* Pipe networks software * Groundwater analysis spreadsheet * Fluid Mechanics for Civil Engineers * Fluid Mechanics Problems * Fluid Mechani...

Oregon DOT Hydraulics Manual Basis Spreadsheet http://egov.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/ENGSERVICES/files/drain6.xls

North Carolina Division of Land Resources Design Calculation Spreadsheets * Sediment control measures * Rationale method with Kinematic Wave...

Analysis spreadsheets accompany this educational resource... Target audience: 1)Professionals with a scientific or engineering background wi...

Excellent e-book series with analysis spreadsheets http://cee.uiuc.edu/people/parkerg/morphodynamics_e-book.htm

Washington State DOT Design Office Hydraulics Branch http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/design/hydraulics/ Low Impact Developing Modeling Guidance...

Bioretention stormwater management measure spreadsheet http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/people/faculty/hunt/BR.Sizing.Routing2.xls

The Watershed Treatment Model (WTM) is a simple spreadsheet that tracks pollutant sources and the effectiveness of various watershed treatme...

User friendly software application for sizing stormwater detention and water quality facilities to meet the Washington State Department of E...

Planning tool: spreadsheet-based model for analysis of predevelopment and postdevelopment stormwater runoff, infiltration, and pollutant loa...

Planning/screening level analysis: spreadsheet tool http://www.wakegov.com/departments/erosion.htm

LID Credits are based on the ability of various LID practices to reduce the overall VOLUME of runoff from a development site. http://www.dcr...

StormWISE: screening and planning level analysis, cost-benefit model for stormwater management facilities. http://watershed.swarthmore.edu

Spreadsheet: nutrient and sediment loads from different land uses and the load reductions that would result from the implementation of vario...

Groundwater recharge analysis: methodology, design storm, details, etc http://www.njstormwater.org/tier_A/bmp_manual.htm#spreadsheet

Spreadsheet model: stormwater structural management measures analysis http://www.greenvillecounty.org/Storm_Water/Planning.asp http://www.st...

Calculations for the preferred approach have been formulated in a spreadsheet that allows the user to input the amount of retention provided...

BURBS is a Lotus 1-2-3 version 2 spreadsheet that helps you to construct a nitrogen mass balance for a residential area in a place like Long...

Land Cover Changes (Trending/Predictive Watershed Parameter Analysis) 3-PG calculates the radiant energy absorbed by forest canopies and con...

HawsEDC (Engineering, Drafting, and Computing) SDnet: Rational Method storm drain network analysis spreadsheet OpenOffice Calc http://www.ha...

Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (LIMP): used to calculate ETo rates, determine landscape coefficients (KL), estimate evapotranspiration (ETL) of...

HRPM.EXE is an executable program that calculates reference evapotranspiration (ETo) for a grass reference using hourly weather data and the...

Analysis spreadsheet http://ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=5044 http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri034265/

Spreadsheet Tools for River Evaluation, Assessment, and Monitoring http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/tabid/9188/default.aspx

Hantush 1967 WRR ZIP file, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (folks need to develop these things for FOSS applications) http://www.ndwrcdp.org/use...

Latest update to EPA SWMM released: Version 5 Build 0.011 (5.0.011, 2007 July 07). Download at " http://www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/models/swm...