This guide will teach you how to open an existing watershed within HEC-RTS. 

There are two ways you can open an existing watershed:

  • The Open Watershed menu option
  • The Recent Watersheds list

Using the Open Watershed Menu Option 

  1. Launch HEC-RTS.
  2. Select Open Watershed from the File menu.
  3. The Open Watershed dialog will appear.
  4. Choose the appropriate Available Location.
  5. Select the watershed from the Available Watersheds list.
  6. Click OK. The dialog will close and the selected watershed will open.

If you do not see a watershed listed under Available Watersheds after selecting an Available Location, the folder structure does not follow the storage convention required by HEC-RTS. The Available Location must be the top-level directory for an HEC-RTS watershed. Within this directory, there must be a folder named watershed that contains the HEC-RTS project directories. In the example shown above, the folder structure would be .../3.5 Watersheds/watershed/NAB_Juniata, where the NAB_Juniata folder contains all files for the HEC-RTS watershed.

Using the Recent Watersheds List

If the watershed you want to open was one that you recently accessed, you can use the Recent Watersheds list.

  1. Launch HEC-RTS.
  2. From the File menu, select Recent Watersheds.
  3. Click the watershed you want to open from the list.
  4. The selected watershed will open.

By default, the Recent Watersheds list displays the last five watersheds you have accessed. Refer to the User Manual to change this setting.