Engineering Software

• NRCS National Water Quality and Quantity Technology Team

  • Animal Waste Management (AWM)

    • AWM (Estimates the production of manure, bedding, process water and determines the size of storage/treatment facilities)

    • AWM Database (Climate, Animal, Bedding and Seperator data for AWM)

    • AWM training video available through the Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center

    • This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
      Guidance for using AWM in Michigan

  • Hydraulics and Hydrology- Tools and Models
    The following are some of the programs that can be downloaded from the NRCS National site:

    • Cross-Secton Analyzer (Hydraulic parameters for uniform flow)

    • SITES (Rainfall-Runoff for Dam and Spillway Analysis and Design)

    • AGNPS (AGricultural Non-Point Source Pollution Model)
    • WinTR-20 (Windows version of TR-20)
    • NRCS Geo-Hydro (ArcView GIS Interface to WinTR-20)

    • WinTR-55 (Technical Release No. 55, Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds)

    Downloadable Data File - updated data file to replace data in NRCS national WinTR-55 download
    NRCS_Storm_Data (includes 24-hour precipitation for 2-,5-,10-,25-,50-, and 100-year frequency storms by Michigan county 4-4-2008)

  EFH2 (Engineering Field Handbook, Chapter 2, Peak Discharge Determination)

  •    NRCS Hydrology and Hydraulics Web page - Includes link to EFH2 software download

Downloadable Data Files - updated  Michigan data files to replace data in NRCS national EFH2 download
SOILS.HG (Hyrologic Soils Groups for Michigan 4-4-2008)
COUNTY.MI (includes 24-hour precipitation for 2-,5-,10-,25-,50-, and 100-year frequency storms by Michigan county 4-4-2008)

• National NRCS Engineering Field Tools (EFT)

•  EFT is a framework for engineering tools used to assist field office individuals plan and design commonly applied     conservation practices. Currently there are only three applications within the EFT:
  1. Survey Engineering Tool (SET)
  2. Waterway Design Tool (WDT)
  3. Terrace Design Tool (TDT)
  For more information about EFT including self-paced training, refer to the EFT Web page: http://eft.nrcs.usda.gov/EFT/web/eft/index.html
   

• NRCS-Ohio

  • Ohio Engineering Software
  • OhioEng (Collection of DOS-based programs authored by C. Liezert, retired NRCS Engineer)

    Downloadable Data Files - Michigan specific data files for Ohio Engineering Software
    SOILS.DAT (Hydrologic Soil Groups for Michigan 4-4-2008)
    CLIMATE.DAT (24-hour precipitation for 2-,5-,10-,25-,50-, and 100-year frequency storms by Michigan county 4-4-2008)

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