Most HEC-RAS/BSTEM model failures come from having too much toe scour. Since soil erodibility data can vary by orders of magnitude, even in the same site, selecting high cohesive erodibility will compute excessive scour. Cohesionless methods (below), that compute toe scour with transport equations almost always over predict scour, sometimes dramatically

In this model, the cohesionless transport methods computed more than 100 feet of bank scour in just over a month, which is order of magnitude faster than the actual bank recession rate.