The demonstration project contains recommendations and hydrologic data for the fictional Meandering River. The project has five systems (Unified, Gravelly Riffles, Oxbow Flats, Oxbow Flats – Water Temperature, and Blue Reservoir) and three states for each method of defining state (wet, average, and dry for "define state by name and year" and wet, normal, and dry for "define state by scripting with time series"). "Normal" was used to reflect use of the different “define state” methods and is analogous to average. Components are identical for the parallel system-states.
The demonstration project and three supporting files (Table 1; Figure 32) are installed to a user specified directory via the software’s “Help – Install Demonstration Project…” menu option. To use the “define by scripting with time series” method for defining states, users will need to update a DSS file location in the script from "C:\HEC Data\HEC-RPT\" to the install location chosen for the demonstration project (see script line 16 in the project file “Meandering River Demo.eco”). The DSS file referenced should remain “Meandering River Data.dss”.
Table 1. File names and descriptions for the demonstration project.
File | Description |
Meandering River Demo.eco | Project file. Contains all interface settings and information entered for the demonstration project. |
Meandering River Demo – ECO.dss | Project companion DSS file. This file was automatically created by the software when the demo project was saved. DSS data referenced in the project are copied from their source DSS file into this project archive. |
Meandering River Data.dss | DSS data file for the Meandering River. Contains time series data for the damsite and downstream points of interest. This file also contains data required to run the script used in the project’s “define by scripting with time series” method for defining states. |
Export of Demo Recommendations.dss | Export of project recommendations. File contains recommendation time series for all systems in the project based on the “define state by name and year method”. This file was generated by the export to DSS software function described in the Data Management portion of this manual. |
Figure 32. Project architecture for "Meandering River Demo.eco".
After installing HEC-RPT, please open "Meandering River Demo.eco" and test some of the features described in this manual. This may seem like an overly short introduction to a demonstration project, but HEC-RPT is primarily a visualization tool. It is not intended to perform detailed quantitative analyses. Users should see plots automatically respond to changes to flow components, markers, predefined plot selections, etc., which makes HEC-RPT easy to experiment with and to learn. Enjoy!