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HecRAS & HecHMS problems and solutions

reported by NRCS users

keywords problem description resolution description contact email

  HecRAS,
  weir equation,
  "zero ht." weir
  Hager's eqn.

   A user was unsure about how to handle a new feature in RAS 4.0,
   namely, modeling a "zero height" weir for a lateral structure.
   He thought the standard weir equation might be modified, but
   did not have reference information.

   A HecRAS support team member emailed him the following
   references, which document what RAS is doing--
   in particular,  the use of Hager's equation for zero height weirs.
   Hager's equation pic     new features pdf

   Clyde Giaquinto

  HecHMS,
  runtime error

   A large watershed dataset that had run fine in HecHMS 3.1 would not
   successfully run in the updated version 3.2, but produced an error
   message (as follows). "ERROR 10000: Unknown exception or error;
   restart HEC-HMS to continue working. Contact HEC for assistance."

   The HecRAS support team contacted HEC and it was determined that
   the new version 3.2 had a memory problem that HEC needed to fix.
   HEC provided a beta version to NRCS and scheduled the next release
   to include this fix.

   Jim Stafford

  HecRAS,
  schematic,
  GIS Tools

   In RAS 4.0, Geometric Data Editor, when choosing Edit, Move Object,
   and attempting to move a cross-section line, the user had all other
   cross-sections disappear, and was unable to retrieve them.

   RAS version 4.0 changes the way cross-sections can be moved in the
   Geometric Data Editor, by introducing a new pulldown menu:
   GIS Tools. To successfully move a cross-section, the user must first
   choose GIS Tools, GIS Cut Lines, Accept Displayed Locations (As
   GeoReferenced)...". Then Edit, Move Object can successfully be used
   to move cross-sections in the schematic.

   Dan Moore

Add to this list by contacting   Jon Fripp  or  Dan Moore

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