The Regime Prescription Tool (HEC-RPT) is designed to facilitate entry, viewing, and documentation of water management recommendations in real-time, public settings. HEC-RPT seeks to improve 1) communications
in group settings by allowing real-time recording and plotting of the recommendations as they are developed and 2) the recommendations produced by making hydrologic information more immediately
accessible to scientists, engineers, and water managers during the formulation process.
HEC-RPT is primarily a visualization tool and is not intended to perform the detailed quantitative analyses (e.g., statistical analyses or reservoir and river routing) already performed by other
software packages. Instead, HEC-RPT seeks to complement other software by making it easier to create time series that other software packages can import and use in their analyses.
Development of HEC-RPT was initiated as the first joint software development by USACE and The Nature Conservancy. Development costs through the first release version were shared between the Hydrologic Engineering Center, Portland District, and The Nature
Conservancy. This work was undertaken in support of the Sustainable Rivers Program, which is an ongoing nation-wide partnership between USACE and The Nature Conservancy to improve the health
and life of rivers by changing the operations USACE water resources infrastructure, while maintaining or enhancing project benefits.