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Tools
The Tools Section provides access to various calculators and tools designed to aid in planning, developing, and maintaining sustainable water supplies:
- Surface Water Supply - on-line interactive tools
- Sustainable Water Well Tools - on-line interactive tools
- Watershed
Delineation Tool - Link to AAFC website tool
- Excel Spreadsheet
Tools - spreadsheets for internal AAFC use (except as noted)
- External Tools in our Links section
Surface Water Supply
- Dugout
Calculator
This tool will calculate the storage volume and dimensions of a dugout. - Reservoir Calculator
This tool will calculate the storage volume and earthwork quantities for a dyked storage reservoir.
Sustainable Water Well Tools
The Sustainable Water Well Tools are a group of tools that help well owners understand, monitor and maintain the performance and water quality of their wells.
- Water
Level Charting
This tool creates a time-graph of water levels and other key components of water wells. - Well
Construction Tool- (Future
Tool)
To aid the understanding of well construction, this tool creates unique well construction drawings from information provided on the drilling report of the well construction. - Water
Well Disinfection Calculator
This calculator incorporates a pH adjustment to calculate the volumes of chlorine and vinegar necessary for optimal disinfection of water
Excel
Spreadsheet Tools (for
internal AAFC use except as noted)
| Type | Tool | Description | Developer/ Contact* |
| Hydrology | Runoff Calculator | Compares three runoff calculation formulas | B. Bell |
| Dugout Water Supply | Water supply calculator for dugouts | B. Bell | |
| Dugout_1 | Calculates a dugout storage-elevation curve & earthwork quantities | B. Bell | |
| Reservoir Curve | Reservoir storage flooded area curve calculation and plot | B. Bell | |
| Gross Evaporation | Monthly gross evaporation calculation and plot | B. Bell | |
| Exceedence Curve | Runoff exceedance curve calculation and plot | B. Bell | |
| Flood Frequency | Runoff frequency calculation and plot | B. Bell | |
| K Factor | k-factor derivation for drawing hydrographs in "HYDRGRPH" program | B. Bell | |
| Plot Monthly Table | Plots a table of monthly values | B. Bell | |
| Table to Single Column | Converts a table of monthly values into a single column | B. Bell | |
| Single
Column to Table |
Converts a single column of data into a table of monthly values | B. Bell | |
| Prairie Drainage Areas | Table of drainage areas for prairie metering stations (2008) | B. Bell | |
| Water Supply & Flood Peak | Water supply and flood peak potential (SDDM method) calculator | B. Bell | |
| Return Period | Plots return period of manually inputted values | A. Cole | |
| Flood Route | Reservoir flood routing | B. Bell | |
| Spillway Rating Curve | Plots spillway rating curve | B. Bell | |
| Hydraulics | Destratify | Design air systems to destratify water bodies | R. Powley |
| Wetland | Preliminary wetland sizing | R. Powley | |
| Culvert | Culvert hydraulics | R. Powley | |
| Air Diffuser | Air diffuser pipe sizing | R. Powley | |
| Dugout_2 | Calculates dugout storage-elevation curve, earthwork quantities & pneumatic mixing requirements | R. Powley | |
| Infiltration Gallery | Design calculations for infiltration galleries | R. Powley | |
| Stepped Spillways | Hydraulic design of stepped spillways | R. Powley | |
| Infuser Manifold | Infuser manifold hole layout design | R. Powley | |
| Particle Settling Basin | Particle settling basin design | R. Powley | |
| Pipe Friction Charts | Pipe friction loss charts for water and air | R. Powley | |
| Plunge Pool | Plunge pool design below circular conduits | R. Powley | |
| Rock Chute | Riprap and Chute sizing for a rock chute | R. Powley | |
| Weir Re-aeration | Calculation of dissolved oxygen concentrations at a weir | R. Powley | |
| Pumping Parameters | Calculation of various hydraulic pumping parameters | R. Woelcke | |
| Pasture Pipeline | Design and costing of pasture pipeline systems | R. Woelcke | |
| Earthwork | Dugout/Reservoir (xlsm, 2 MB) |
Balanced earthwork design of dugouts and Irrigation reservoirs | J. Zyla |
| Small
Earth Dam (internal AAFC) Small Earth Dam (public version) (xlsm, 0.5 MB) |
Small dam earthwork and cost calculator | J. Zyla |
* No longer with AAFC
