Delta Hydro Studio
FreemiumVerified
Browser-based hydrology and hydraulics calculators for practising engineers — no install, report-ready output.
HydroCAD
ActiveThe US land-development standard for TR-55/TR-20 hydrographs and detention pond design.
by HydroCAD Software Solutions
- Pricing
- Commercial
- License
- Proprietary
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Ecosystem
- Standalone
- Platform
- Windows
About HydroCAD
HydroCAD is the tool a huge share of US site-civil drainage reports are built in: SCS/NRCS hydrology (TR-55/TR-20 procedures), rational method, hydrograph routing through ponds and reaches, outlet-structure hydraulics with composite rating curves, and clean report output reviewers recognise on sight.
Its focus is the land-development detention workflow — model the site, size the pond, tune the outlet, print the package — and within that focus it is extremely efficient. It is Windows-only commercial software with a free sampler edition for evaluation.
Where it fits in the workflow
TerrainCatchmentRainfallRunoffRoutingHydraulicsMappingReporting
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