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The Regime Prescription Tool (HEC-RPT) is
designed to facilitate entry, viewing, and documentation of
flow 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 flow time series that other software
packages can import and use in their analyses.
HEC-RPT is the first joint software development by the Corps
and The Nature Conservancy. Development costs were shared
between the Hydrologic Engineering Center, Portland
District, and The Nature Conservancy. This work was
undertaken in support of the Sustainable Rivers Project,
which is an ongoing nation-wide partnership between the
Corps and The Nature Conservancy to improve the health and
life of rivers by changing the operations of Corps dams,
while maintaining or enhancing project benefits.
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