HSPF

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Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) is a comprehensive package for simulation of watershed hydrology and water quality for both conventional and toxic organic pollutants. HSPF incorporates watershed-scale ARM and NPS models into a basin-scale analysis framework that includes fate and transport in one dimensional stream channels. It is the only comprehensive model of watershed hydrology and water quality that allows the integrated simulation of land and soil contaminant runoff processes with In-stream hydraulic and sediment-chemical interactions. The result of this simulation is a time history of the runoff flow rate, sediment load, and nutrient and pesticide concentrations, along with a time history of water quantity and quality at any point in a watershed. HSPF simulates three sediment types (sand, silt, and clay) in addition to a single organic chemical and transformation products of that chemical.

Specifications

Current Version:	11.0
Release Date:	April 1997
Development Status:	General Release
Development Information:	Release Notes - changes and known deficiencies
Operating System:	16-bit MS-DOS
Development Language:	FORTRAN
Intended Audience:	Environmental Scientist/Biologist
Key Words:	assessment, biology, compliance, deposition, discharge, environmental effects, estuaries, hydrology, lakes, metals, monitoring, NPS related, NPDES, nutrients, permits, pesticides, point source(s), rivers, sediment, streams, surface water, test/analysis, TMDL related, toxicity
Related Web Sites:	EPA's environmental analysis system BASINS

 

Text Files (ASCII Format)

File Name	File Description
ABSTRACT.TXT	Summary of functions, theory, and applicability.
README.TXT	Important installation and usage information.

 

Download Files

File Type / Priority	File Name / Format / Size	File Description
Install / Required	INSTALHS.EXE / Self-extracting Executable / 8.7 MB	Setup file for version 11.0 of the HSPF system. Use this for new installs. INSTALHS.EXE must be executed from DOS or a DOS command prompt. Setup file includes documentation. See README.TXT for important installation instructions.
Update / Recommended	HSP11Y2K.EXE / Self-extracting Zip / 864 KB	This patch replaces the file XHSPFX.EXE from an existing HSPF 11.0 installation in order to fix "Year 2000" compliance problems. This patch should only be applied to a current HSPF 11.0 installation. Save the file HSP11Y2K.EXE in the existing HSPF11 directory (e.g., C:\HSPF11) on the target system. Execute it to extract the updated XHSPFX.EXE file and overwrite the existing version.

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BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating point & Non-point Sources)

Version 4.0 and 3.1

• Download and install BASINS Version 4.0
  • Fact sheet about the BASINS 4.0 release (April 12, 2007)
• Download and install BASINS Version 3.1
• Latest updates
• Data from the web

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Latest updates

Both BASINS 4 and 3.1 have an automatic update feature in the software to indicate to the user that an update is available. The latest update for BASINS 4 is dated March 2009. The latest update for BASINS 3.1 is Update 8 released November 2006.

Data from the web

New and updated datasets (see metadata) have been added to the data download directory for each 8-digit watershed or HUC in the lower 48 states, Alaska (19), Hawaii (20), and Puerto Rico with the U.S. Virgin Islands (21). Data by HUCs can be found on the web. Use "Surf Your Watershed" to find and locate HUCs.

The DEM (Digital Elevation Model) shapefile and grid datasets can be added to BASINS before or after the BASINS project has been created.

The National Elevation Dataset (NED), a higher resolution elevation grid, tiled by HUC boundary is also available.

The GIRAS landuse/landcover has been removed from the core data and is now available seperately as a shapefile for each HUC.

Weather data by states for the models can be found at /ost/ftp/basins/wdm_data/.

The SWAT model in BASINS requires STATSGO data.

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OTHER SOFTWARE LINKS
 

Product Name	Operating System	Key Words	Maintained By
EFDC	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	surface water, hydrodynamic, sediment-contaminant, eutrophication, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, estuaries, coastal ocean regions, assessment, management, regulatory	CEAM
EXAMS	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	aquatic biology, assessment, biology, chemistry, compliance, environmental effects, metals, NPS related, permits, pesticides, point source(s), rivers, streams, surface water, test/analysis	CEAM
EXPRESS	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	przm, exams, exposure, shell	CEAM
GCSOLAR	Win 9x, NT	solar, photolysis, half-life, pollutant, aquatic, ozone	CEAM
HSCTM2D	Win 9x, NT	hydrology, sediment, contaminant, transport, finite element model, river, estuary	CEAM
HSPF	Win 9x, NT	assessment, biology, compliance, deposition, discharge, environmental effects, estuaries, hydrology, lakes, metals, monitoring, NPS related, NPDES, nutrients, permits, pesticides, point source(s), rivers, sediment, streams, surface water, test/analysis, TMDL related, toxicity	CEAM
HSPF Toolkit	Java enabled browser	HSPF, WinHSPF, FTABLE, RCHRES, BMP, assessment, compliance, discharge, environmental effects, hydrology, permits, rivers, sediment, streams, surface water, TMDL related, toxicity	ERD
PRZM3	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	assessment, discharge, environmental effects, hydrology, land use management, metals, pesticides, surface water, test/analysis	CEAM
QUAL2K	Win ME, 2000, XP	aquatic biology, assessment, compliance, discharge, environmental effects, hydrology, NPS related, NPDES, point source(s), surface water, test/analysis, TMDL related	Watershed & Water Quality Modeling Tech Support Center (ERD/EPA Region 4)
RUSLE2	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	rill, interrill, erosion, sediment, overland flow, climate, soil, topography, land use	USDA Agricultural Research Service
SERAFM	MS-Excel 2003	serafm, exposure, assessment, mecury, hg, surface water, pond, stream, river	CEAM
SWMM	Win 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP	aquatic biology, assessment, combined sewer, community, discharge, environmental effects, metals, NPS related, NPDES, point source(s), procedure, rivers, stormwater, streams, surface water, test/analysis, TMDL related	Water Supply & Water Resources Division (NRMRL)
Visual Plumes	Win 98, NT, 2000, XP	surface, water, jet, plume, model, quality, contaminant, TMDL	CEAM
WASP	Win 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP	aquatic biology, assessment, compliance, discharge, environmental effects, hydrology, metals, NPS related, NPDES, point source(s), surface water, test/analysis, TMDL related	Watershed & Water Quality Modeling Tech Support Center (ERD/EPA Region 4)
WHATIF	Win XP(SP2)	watershed, health, fish, habitat, macro-invertebrate, biodiversity, BASS, biomass, biota, aquatic ecosystem, MAHA, CVI, hydraulic, bankfull, flow, restoration, foodweb, mercury, PCB, dioxin	CEAM