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to the IWR-PLAN Decision Support Software
Site. The US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources
provides this site to supply news and information related to IWR-PLAN
and to provide access to the IWR-PLAN download site. 
Developed in partnership with the
Social
Sciences Institute of the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, IWR-PLAN was initially designed
to assist with the formulation and comparison of alternative plans
for ecosystem restoration and watershed planning studies. However,
the program can be applied to planning studies addressing a wide
variety of problems.
Briefly, IWR-PLAN assists with plan formulation by combining user-defined
solutions to planning problems and calculating the effects of each
combination, or "plan." The program can assist with
plan comparison by conducting cost
effectiveness and incremental
cost analyses, identifying the plans which are best financial
investments and displaying the effects of each on a range of decision
variables. For a more detailed explanation of IWR-PLAN's capabilities,
click on the General Info
button of the navigation chart above.
Download
and installation instructions
are provided by clicking on the Software
Info button of the navigation bar above. IWR-PLAN program
files require about 13 megabytes of hard disk storage space and often
take about 20 to 30 minutes to download, depending on Internet traffic
volumes and modem speeds. Click on the Software Info button
above for more detailed information on hardware and software system
requirements.
IWR-PLAN is free to the public. We encourage its use and welcome user
feedback. Future software
enhancements and capabilities are scheduled. As these modifications
are completed and tested, they will be incorporated into new versions
of the software and made available from the download site. New versions
will be announced on the News
Board. Check the News Board regularly for information about future
IWR-PLAN updates.
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