Delta Hydro

11 tools · Topic

Surface Water Quality Modelling Software

Dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, eutrophication — surface-water quality models simulate the chemistry and biology rivers and reservoirs. This page collects the public-agency standards (QUAL2K lineage, WASP, CE-QUAL-W2) and the modern frameworks replacing them.

AQUATOX

Gov-Public

EPA's aquatic ecosystem model — fate and ecological effects of nutrients, toxics and stressors together.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalDormantWater Quality Modelling

BASINS

Gov-Public

EPA's watershed assessment suite — HSPF continuous watershed-quality modelling with GIS and data access built in.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalDormantWater Quality ModellingWatershed Delineation

The standard 2D reservoir and stratified-river water-quality model — temperature, DO and eutrophication.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingReservoir Operations

EFDC+

Freemium

Open-source 3D hydrodynamics and water quality — the EFDC lineage modernised, with a commercial GUI option.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingCoastal Modelling

EGRET

Open Source

USGS R package for long-term water-quality and streamflow trends — home of the WRTDS method.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingR Hydrology

EPANET-MSX

Gov-Public

Multi-species water quality for EPANET — model chloramine decay, DBPs and reactive chemistry in networks.

Water Distribution & QualityStableEPANETWater Quality Modelling

MUSIC

Commercial

eWater's stormwater-quality model — the WSUD assessment standard across Australian councils.

Urban Stormwater & InfrastructureActiveSuDS & LID DesignWater Quality Modelling

PHREEQC

Gov-Public

USGS geochemical modelling — speciation, batch reactions, 1D reactive transport and inverse modelling.

Groundwater & HydrogeologyActiveContaminant TransportWater Quality Modelling

QUAL2K

Free

The classic river water-quality model — DO, nutrients and algae along a 1D stream network.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalDormantWater Quality Modelling

SWAT+

Open Source

The USDA watershed model for land use, sediment and nutrients — continuous simulation at catchment scale.

Hydrology & Catchment AnalysisActiveWater Quality ModellingSCS Curve Number

WASP

Gov-Public

EPA's Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program — eutrophication, toxics and sediment in rivers and estuaries.

Water Quality & EnvironmentalActiveWater Quality ModellingContaminant Transport