This table classifies common models by type of model.
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| Model or tool | Input complexity | Simulation type(s) | Public domain | Unsteady flow | Type of water quality model | Built-in BMPs | Assess TP | Assess TSS | Assess volume | Comment on use | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR-55 | Low | Event | Yes | None | No | No | Replaced by WinTR-55 | ||||
| Rational method (equation) | Low | Event | Yes | None | No | No | |||||
| HEC-1 | Medium | Yes | None | Replaced by HEC-HMS | |||||||
| HEC-HMS | Medium | Yes | None | No | No | ||||||
| Win TR-55 (or TR-20 DOS version) | Medium | Event or continuous | Yes | None | No | No | |||||
| Win TR-55 | Low | Event | Yes | None | No | No | |||||
| HydroCAD | Medium | Event | No | Detention ponds and storage chambers | Yes | Yes | No | ||||
| HEC-RAS | Medium | Event or continuous | Yes | Yes | Receiving water | None | Yes | No | |||
| HEC-2 | Medium | yes | No | None | No | No | Replaced by HEC-RAS | ||||
| WSPRO | Medium | Yes | No | None | No | No | This is an old model and likely no longer used | ||||
| CulvertMaster | Low | Event | No | no | None | No | No | ||||
| Flow Master | Low | Event | No | No | None | No | No | ||||
| PondPack | Medium | Event | No | No | Detention ponds. PondPack can calculate first-flush volume and aid in designing for minimum drain time, but does not model pollutants | No | No | No | |||
| EPA SWMM | Medium/High | Event or continuous | Yes | Yes | Loading, Receiving Water (limited to first order decay) | Low impact development BMPs including rain barrels, permeable pavers, vegetative swales, bioretention cells, infiltration trenches; traditional BMPs including detention basins, infiltration practices, wetlands, ponds. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PC SWMM | Medium/High | Yes | No | Yes | Loading, Receiving Water (limited to first order decay) | Low impact development BMPs including rain barrels, permeable pavers, vegetative swales, bioretention cells, infiltration trenches; traditional BMPs including detention basins, infiltration practices, wetlands, ponds. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Info SWMM | Medium/High | Event/Continuous | No | Yes | Loading, Receiving Water (limited to first order decay) | Low impact development BMPs including rain barrels, permeable pavers, vegetative swales, bioretention cells, infiltration trenches; traditional BMPs including detention basins, infiltration practices, wetlands, ponds. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| XPS SWMM | Medium/High | Event/Continuous | No | Yes | Loading, Receiving Water (limited to first order decay) | Rain gardens, green roofs, rain barrels, street sweeping, infiltration trenches, dry detention basins, wet ponds, swales, porour pavement, filter strips | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| MIKE URBAN (SWMM or MOUSE) | Medium/High | Event/Continuous | No | Yes | Loading, Receiving Water (limited to first order decay) | Low impact development BMPs including rain barrels, permeable pavers, vegetative swales, bioretention cells, infiltration trenches; traditional BMPs including detention basins, infiltration practices, wetlands, ponds. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| ICPR | Medium | Event | No | Ponds | No | No | No | Not believed to be a widely used model for stormwater/pollutant modeling | |||
| InfoWorks ICM | High | Event/Continuous | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Mike 11 | |||||||||||
| CivilStorm | Medium | Event | No | Yes | Ponds, low impact development controls | No | No | Yes | |||
| MODRET | |||||||||||
| WINSLAMM | Medium | Event | No | BMP, Loading | Detention ponds, infiltration devices, porous pavements, grass swales, catch basin cleaning, and street cleaning. | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| P8 | Medium | Event/Continuous | Yes | BMP, Loading | Detention ponds, infiltration basins, swales or buffer strips, and generalized devices | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| BASINS | Yes | BASINS is a user interface to set up models in WinHSPF, SWAT, SWMM, PLOAD, and GLWF-E. These models are listed here separately. | |||||||||
| QUAL2E/QUAL2K | Medium | Yes | Receiving water model | ||||||||
| WinHSPF | High | Event/Continuous | Yes | Yes | Loading, receiving water | Nutrient management, Contouring, Terracing, Ponds, Wetlands; USEPA BMP Web Toolkit available to assist with implementing structural BMPs such as detention basins, or infiltration BMPs that represent source control facilities, which capture runoff from small impervious areas (e.g., parking lots or rooftops). | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| LSPC | High | Event/Continuous | Yes | Yes | Loading, receiving water | Though developed for HSPF, the USEPA BMP Web Toolkit can be used with LSPC to model structural BMPs such as detention basins, or infiltration BMPs that represent source control facilities, which capture runoff from small impervious areas (e.g., parking lots or rooftops). | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| SWAT | Medium/High | Event/Continuous | Yes | Yes | Loading | Model offers many agricultural BMPs and practices, but limited urban BMPs at this time. BMPs related to urban practices include detention basins, infiltration practices, vegetative filter strips, street sweeping, wetlands. | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PLOAD | Low | Event | Yes | Loading | User-defined practices with user-specified removal percentages | Yes | Yes | no | |||
| PondNet | Low | Event | Yes | Loading | Wet detention ponds | Yes | No | Yes | |||
| WASP | High | Event/Continuous | Yes | Receiving water | None | yes | Yes | No | Receiving water model | ||
| WMM | Not believed to be a widely used model for stormwater/pollutant modeling | ||||||||||
| WARMF | Event/Continuous | Yes | Loading, receiving water | ||||||||
| SHSAM | Low | Event | No | BMP | Several flow-through structures including standard sumps, and proprietary systems such as CDS, Stormceptors, and Vortechs systems | No | Yes | No | |||
| SUSTAIN | Medium | Event/Continuous | Yes | Bioretention, cisterns, constructed wetlands, dry/wet ponds, swales, green roofs, infiltration basins, infiltration trenches, porous pavement, rain barrels, sand filters, filter strips | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Virginia Runoff Reduction Method | Not believed to be a widely used model for stormwater/pollutant modeling | ||||||||||
| MapShed | Medium | Event | Yes | Loading, BMP | Detention basins, vegetated buffer strips, stabilized streambanks, infiltration/bioretention, constructed wetlands, street sweeping | Yes | Yes | Yes | Region-specific input data not available for Minnesota but user can create this data for any region. | ||
| MIDS calculator | |||||||||||
| EPA National Stormwater Calculator | |||||||||||
| SELECT | |||||||||||
| Metropolitan Council Stormwater Reuse Guide Excel Spreadsheet | |||||||||||
| MCWD/MWMO Stormwater Reuse Calculator | |||||||||||
| North Carolina State University Rainwater Harvesting Model | |||||||||||
| i-Tree Streets | |||||||||||
| i-Tree Hydro | |||||||||||
| RECARGA | |||||||||||
| SELDM | |||||||||||
| MIDUSS | |||||||||||
| QHM | |||||||||||
| WWHM | |||||||||||
| HY8 | |||||||||||
| Hydraulic Toolbox | |||||||||||
| SMS | |||||||||||
| GWLF-E | |||||||||||
| EPD-RIV1 | |||||||||||
| CE-QUAL-RIV2 | |||||||||||
| CE-QUAL-W2 |