Models & spreadsheets
Models and spreadsheets assist with scientific research and engineering. The models and spreadsheets we develop are available for use by the scientific community and the public. Download here.
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Modeling the environment describes the models that we are developing and using. Models can predict environmental changes.
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Water quality
- Models & tools for water quality improvement projects offers a variety of modeling tools for those involved in the TMDL water quality improvement process.
- River & stream water quality index explains the Water Quality Index (WQI) and offers a WQI calculator that can be used with your own stream data.
- Spreadsheet tool for estimating groundwater nitrate concentration from available data can be used to quantitatively predict the impact of residual or excess farm-field soil nitrate or mass balance residual on the concentration of nitrate in underlying shallow groundwater.
Effluents
- A PermitCalc spreadsheet can help with many kinds of calculations needed by dischargers of effluents. Please contact your permit manager for the current version.
Contamination cleanup
- Online tools for cleaning up sites has a number of tools that will help owners of sites contaminated by substances that are not petroleum, including a workbook for calculating cleanup levels.
- Tools for cleaning up petroleum contaminated sites has tools specifically for sites contaminated by petroleum.
Water supply
- Rainwater collection has the rainwater harvesting calculator available for download.
- Dam construction & modification guidance includes a number of spreadsheets and tools that engineers can use to construct or retrofit dams.
Laboratories
- Bench sheets & control charts can help labs with quality control.