Procedural Steps for Using Arcview with Geo-HMS Application

1) 2) Create a project directory on your hard drive if you dont already have one Download Appropriate DEMs containing your entire watershed (Be sure to examine the information page for each DEM noting the Grid Coordinate System Name as well as the UTM Zone Number of each DEM) a. For Pennsylvania Watersheds www.pasda.psu.ed --access data --data download --USGS 1:24,000 Scale DEMs b. For Other States check the states DEP home page for links 3) Download the Appropriate Streams Coverage for each county that the Watershed lies in (Be sure to examine the information page for each Streams coverage noting the Map Projection Name Ellipsoid Name Longitude of Central Meridian Latitude of Projection Origin Standard Parallel (x2) False Easting False Northing) a. For Pennsylvania Watershed www.pasda.psu.edu -- access data -- data download -- streams: PA Explorer Edition For Other States check the states DEP home page for links

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Use Winzip to unzip the compressed files Open Arcview (press cancel at opening dialog box) Go to File Extensions Make sure each of the following extensions are checked on a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. 3D Analyst Geoprocessing Grid Projector HEC-GeoHMS Hydrologic Modeling (sample) Hydrologic Modeling V1.1 (sample) Network Analyst Projector! Projection Utility Wizard Spatial Analyst

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Double click Views from Untitled project window

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Go to File Set Working Directory Type in the path to your project directory Go to File Import Data Source Select USGS DEM -- navigate to your project directory select the DEM (press ok) name the output grid ****Repeat Step 9 until all DEMs are imported ****If only 1 DEM was input then skip to Step 14

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Go to Analysis Map Calculator a. Double click on one the Displayed Grids (DEMs) under the layers portion of the screen (Note DO NOT select the xxxx_dem.count) b. After the selected DEM appears in the dialog box BEFORE the end parenthesis type .merge({ c. Double click on the next DEM d. Before the last parenthesis type , then double click on the next DEM, etc. e. After you have selected the final DEM before the last parenthesis type }) then press Evaluate f. Shut down the Map Calculator window

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Highlight the Map Calculation x grid from the left side of the View Window Go to Theme Covert to Grid a. type in a new grid name call it something like total_dem, combined_dem, etc.

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You can now delete each of the other grids since you wont be using them anymore just make sure you dont delete the total_dem you just created. To delete the other grids, be sure to highlight them and then go to Edit Delete Themes Go to View Add Theme Make sure the feature data source option is selected, then select the streams coverage -- repeat if you have more than 1 streams coverage Go to View Properties Select meters for both map units and distance units We now need to reproject the streams coverage onto the dem grid a. b. c. d. Highlight the Streams them from the view window Click on the Change Projection icon button from the toolbar Under the Projection Properties window select Custom Enter the data obtained in step 3

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Select meters for output data Under the Projection Properties window select Standard Enter the data obtained in step 2 Give your theme a name

Highlight the total_dem theme from the view window Go to Hydro Fill Sinks Highlight the filled xxxx theme from the view window Go to Hydro Flow Direction Go to File Save Project as Navigate to the correct directory name your project Close the View Window Double Click on MainView from the Project Window Go to View Add Theme Make sure the Grid Data Source option is selected Select the Fdir_x theme ***repeat for the Fill_x theme Go to View Add Theme Make sure the Feature Data Source option is selected Select each of the streams.shp files Go to Terrain Preprocessing Data Management a. at HydroDem select Fill_x b. at FlowDirGrid select Fdir_x

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Go to Terrain Preporocessing Flow Accumulation repeat for a. stream definition select the cell # method and choose a number roughly 10% of the largest drainage basin size b. stream segmentation c. watershed delineation d. watershed polygon processing e. stream segment processing f. watershed aggregation

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Go to HMS Project Setup Start New Project name your give it a title using xxxx_hms Click on the outlet point icon from the toolbar a. find the outlet for the dam by overlaying the streams coverage and then select a point right at or just downstream of the dam

b. give the outlet a name 30) 31) Go to HMS Project Setup Generate Project Highlight a watershed theme from the projview window a. select all sub-basins that you wish to merge into 1 basin then go to Basin Processing Basin Merge (hold shift button while selecting) b. repeat for River Merging 32) 33) 34) 35) Go to Basin Characteristics select each one of the options in order Go to HMS select each one of the options in order except the last two Go to File Save Project Go to Theme Table to view basin characteristics (LHL, elevations, areas, etc.)