National Engineering Handbook

• NHWQM National Handbook of Water Quality Montoring
  • Part 600 (1997) (note filing discrepency)
  • Part 615 (2002 draft) (note filing discrepency)

• NEH-22 Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting (4/72)
• Part 622 Chapter 3: DRAFT Data Site Selection
  • NB_210_10_6 This draft of NEH 622.03 updates portions applicable to the selection of data collection sites in the Soil Conservation Service NEH, Section 22, Snow Survey and Water Supply Forecasting, dated April 1972.  This chapter presents information for consideration in selecting data collection site locations and contains information on authorizations and documentations of new sites.

Technical Notes

• Snow Survey and Water Supply Forcasting Technical Note No. 1 - GUIDANCE PRODUCT FOR DAILY WATER SUPPLY FORECAST
• Snow Survey and Water Supply Forcasting Technical Note No. 2 - ENG – SNOW SURVEY AND WATER SUPPLY FORECASTING – STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN VIPER WATER SUPPLY FORECASTING SOFTWARE
• Snow Survey, Water Supply Forecasting and Drought Monitoring page

• NEH 15 Chapter 1: Soil - Plant - Water Relationships
• Part 623 Chapter 2: Irrigation Water Requirements
• NEH 15 Chapter 3: Removed NB_210_10_2 Planning Farm Irrigation Systems
• NEH 15 Chapter 4: Border Irrigation
  • Part 623 Chapter 4 DRAFT: Surface Irrigation (04/2006)
• NEH 15 Chapter 5: Furrow Irrigation
• NEH 15 Chapter 6: Removed NB_210_10_2 Contour-Levee Irrigation
• NEH 15 Chapter 7: Trickle Irrigation
• NEH 15 Chapter 8: Irrigation Pumping Plants
• Part 623 Chapter 9: Water Measurement Manual
• NEH 15 Chapter 11: Sprinkle Irrigation
  
• NEH 15 Chapter 12: Land Leveling
• NRCS Irrigation page

Part 624 - Drainage, was called NEH 16 Drainage of Agricultural Land

All chapters from NEH 16 are listed here

• NEH 16 Cover, Preface, Table of Contents
  
• NEH 16 Chapter 1 - Principles of Drainage
• NEH 16 Chapter 2 - Drainage Investigations
• NEH 16 Chapter 3 - Surface Drainage
• NEH 16 Chapter 4 - Subsurface Drainage
• NEH 16 Chapter 5 - Open Ditches for Drainage--Design, Construction, and Maintenance
• NEH 16 Chapter 6 - Dikes
• NEH 16 Chapter 7 - Drainage Pumping
  
• NEH 16 Chapter 8 - Drainage of Organic Soils
• NEH 16 Chapter 9 - Drainage of Tidal Land
• Part 624 Chapter 10: Water Table Control

• NRCS Agricultural Drainage Page

• Part 625 Chapter 4: xxx DRAFT (4/2006)

• NEH 16 Chapter 5 - Open Ditches for Drainage--Design, Construction, and Maintenance
• TR-57 Flood Proofing

• Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Operations

• Chapter 45: Filter Diaphragms
• Chapter 50: Earth Spillway Design
• Chapter 51: Earth Spillway Erosion Model
• Chapter 52: Field Procedures Guide for the Headcut Erodibility Index

Technical Releases

• TR-210-46 - Gated Outlet Appurtenances, Earth Dams (12/1982)
• TR-210-56 - A Guide for Design and Layout of Vegetative Wave Protection for Earth Dam Embankments (12/1974)
• TR-210-60 - Earth Dams and Reservoirs (7/2005)
  • (from Part 623.45) NEH Part 628.45 contains criteria and guidance formerly included in TR–60
    and SNTC Technical Note 709. This material supersedes and replaces the
    guidance on filter diaphragms contained in those documents.

Technical Notes

• TN_210_DN_01 - Scour Protection at Base of Risers to Drop Inlet Spillways (8/1967)
• TN_210_DN_03 - Detail of Riprap Above Berm on Earth Dam (7/1968)
• TN_210_DN_06 - Riprap Lined Plunge Pool for Cantilever Outlet (Second Edition) (1/1986)

• To be released in 2010
• Chapter 1:. Introduction
• Chapter 2: Particulate Matter
• Chapter 3: Greenhouse Gases
• Chapter 4: Odor
• Chapter 5: Tropospheric Ozone
• Chapter 6: Chemical Drift
  

Formerly NEH Section 4

• Chapter 1 - Introduction (09/1997)
• Chapter 2 - Procedures (04/1999)
• Chapter 3 - Preliminary Investigations (04/1999)
• Chapter 4 - Storm Rainfall Depth (03/1993)
• Chapter 5 - Streamflow Data (09/1997)
• Chapter 6 - Stream Reaches and Hydrologic Units (11/1998)
• Chapter 7 – Hydrologic Soil Groups (05/2007)
• Chapter 8 - Land Use and Treatment Classes (06/2002)
• Chapter 9 – Hydrologic Soil-Cover Complexes (09/2004)
• Chapter 10 - Estimation of Direct Runoff from Storm Rainfall (09/2004)
• Chapter 11 – Snowmelt (09/2004)
• Chapter 12 – Hydrologic Effect of Land Use and Treatment  (09/2000)
• Chapter 13 – Stage Inundation Relations (09/2007)
• Chapter 14 - Stage-Discharge Relationships (08/1972)
• Chapter 15 - Travel Time, Time of Concentration and Lag (08/1972)
• Chapter 15 DRAFT- NB_210_9_1 Time of Concentration (10/2008)
• Chapter 16 - Hydrographs (03/2007)
• Chapter 17 - Flood Routing (08/1972)
• Chapter 18 - Selected Statistical Methods (09/2000)
• Chapter 19 - Transmission Losses (09/2007)
• Chapter 20 - Watershed Yield (1956; Reprinted with minor revisions, 1971)
• Chapter 21 - Design Hydrographs (09/1972)
  • Chapter 21 DRAFT- Design Hydrographs (08/2006) NB.210.7.16
  • Chapter 21 Appendix A- Design Hydrographs (08/2006) NB.210.7.16
  • Chapter 21 Appendix B- Design Hydrographs (08/2006) NB.210.7.16
• Chapter 22 - Glossary (1956; Reprinted with minor revisions, 1971)
• Chapter 31 – Removed NB_210_10_2 Computer Program for Water Surface Profiles NRCS formally adopted HEC-RAS.
  

Technical Releases

• TR-210-16
• TR-210-19 - Determination of Storage Requirements to Meet Supply Demand Relationships (3/1962)
• TR-210-19-A - Revision of Reservoir Operations Study Computer Program and User Manual, Appendix A (3/1988)
• TR-210-25 - Design of Open Channels (9/1977) (Chapter 4 Only)
• TR-210-33 - Simplified Method for Determining Floodwater Storage (4/1978)
• TR-210-35 - Method of Reservoir Flood Routing (2/1967)
• TR-210-37 - Structural Analysis and Design at Base of Riser With Conduit Openings in Both Endwalls (12/1967)
• TR-210-38
• TR-210-55 - Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds (second edition) (6/1986)
• TR-210-66 - Simplified Dam-Breach Routing Procedure (third edition) (9/1985)
• TR-210-75 - Reservoir Storage Volume Planning (7/1991)
• DN-16
• HN-1
• NRCS Hydraulics and Hydrology page

• Section 8 Chapter 1 -- Description of Materials
• Section 8 Chapter 2 -- Exploration Methods and Equipment
• Section 8 Chapter 3 -- Samples
• Section 8 Chapter 4 -- Logging Test Holes
• Section 8 Chapter 5 -- Requirements for Geologic Investigations and Sampling
• Section 8 Chapter 6 -- Preliminary Site Investigation
• Section 8 Chapter 7 -- Detailed Site Investigation
• Section 8 Index
• Part 631 Chapter 12 - Rock Material Field Classification System
• Part 631 Chapter 30 - DRAFT Ground Water Hydrology and Geology
• Part 631 Chapter 31 - DRAFT Ground Water Investigations
• Part 631 Chapter 32 - DRAFT Well Design and Spring Development
• Part 631 Chapter 33 - DRAFT Ground Water Recharge

To Be Replaced NB_210_9_6

• Section 18 Ground Water (06/1978)
• TR36 Ground Water Recharge (06/1967)
• Part 631 Chapter 33 Investigations for Ground Water Resource Development (11/1998)

From NB_210_9_6

Four new chapters in the NEH have been drafted and proposed to replace the following
existing documents in the Electronic Directives System:

• NEH, Section 18, Ground Water (June 1978).
• Technical Release No. 36, Ground Water Recharge (June 1967).
• NEH, Part 631, Chapter 33, Investigations for Ground Water Resources Development
  (November 1998).
  

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Sediment Properties
• Chapter 3: Erosion
• Chapter 4: Transmission of Sediment by Water
• Chapter 5: Deposition of Sediment
• Chapter 6: Sediment Sources, Yields, and Delivery Ratios
• Chapter 7: Field Investigations and Surveys
• Chapter 8: Sediment-Storage Design Criteria
• Chapter 9: Units and Equivalents

• Chapter 26: Gradation Design of Sand and Gravel Filters (10/1994)
  • Most of the criteria in this document was originally issued in Soil Mechanics
    Note 1, revised January 1986. This revision of Soil Mechanics Note 1 and
    any future revisions of other Soil Mechanics Notes will be placed in the
    National Engineering Handbook, Part 633, Soil Engineering. This material is
    Chapter 26, Gradation Design of Sand and Gravel Filters.

• Section 5 - Hydraulics
• Section 11 - Drop Spillways
• Section 14 - Chute Spillways
• NRCS Hydraulics and Hydrology

• TR-210-65 - Procedures to Establish Priorities in Landscape Architecture (10/1978)

• TN_210_LAN_01 - Landscape Design in Mined Land Reclamation (9/1983)
• TN_210_LAN_02 - Removed NB_210_10_2 Landscape Design: Ponds (9/1988)
• TN_210_LAN_03 - Landscape and Wildlife Habitat Management in the Countryside (4/1987)

• Section 6 - Structural Dams
• Chapter 52 Design of Flexible Conduits

Flexible conduits used on NRCS projects typically consist of corrugated
metal pipe (CMP), various types of plastic pipe, steel pipe, or ductile iron
pipe. The design of these conduits was completed by allowable fill height
tables in various Conservation Practice Standards, guidance given in TR
77—Design and Installation of Flexible Conduits and the associated computer
program, and multiple technical notes developed by NRCS staff.

NEH 636 chapter 52 updates the design procedure to current industry and
government agency practice. Although symbols for conduit (pipe) design
vary among types of materials and industry guidance, those used in chapter
52 are consistent within the document (see appendix 52A). Appendix 52B
contains several design examples that were developed using the formulas
and information in this chapter.

• Chapter 2 - Composting
• Chapter 3 - Wetland Construction (11/2009)

• Part 641 - Drafting and Drawings

NEH Part 642 in its entirety is a complete replacement of National Engineering Handbook Section 20, “Specifications for Construction Contracting.”

NEH-20 and all amendments are cancelled.

• Chapter 1 - General Contract Specification Procedures
• Chapter 2 - National Standard Construction Specifications
• Chapter 3 - National Standard Material Specifications
  

• Section 19 - Construction Inspection

 

• Chapter 1 - Surveying
• Chapter 2 - Hydrology
• Chapter 3 - Hydraulics
  • Chapter 3 - Hydraulics DRAFT NB_210_9_10 (08/2009)
• Chapter 4 - Elementary Soil Engineering
• Chapter 5 - Removed NB_210_10_2 Preparation of Engineering Plans
• Chapter 6 - Structures
• Chapter 7 - Grassed Waterway
• Chapter 8 - Terraces
• Chapter 9 - Diversion
• Chapter 10 - Gully Treatment
• Chapter 11 - Ponds and Reservoirs
• Chapter 12 - Springs and Wells
• Chapter 13 - Wetland Restoration, Enhancement, or Creation
• Chapter 14 - Water Management (Drainage)
• Chapter 15 - Irrigation
• Chapter 16 - Streambank and Shoreline Protection
• Chapter 17 - Removed NB_210_10_2 Construction and Construction Materials
• Chapter 18 - Soil Bioengineering for Upland Slope Protection and Erosion Reduction
• Chapter 19 - Hydrology Tools for Wetland Determination

• • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: Laws, Regulations, Policy, and Water Quality Criteria (07/2009)
  • Chapter 2: Planning Considerations (90kb)
  • Chapter 3: Agricultural Wastes and Water, Air and Animal Resources (163kb)
  • Chapter 4: Agricultural Waste Characteristics (106kb)
  • Chapter 5: Role of Soils in Waste Management (77kb)
  • Chapter 6: Role of Plants in Waste Management (126kb)
  • Chapter 7: Geologic and Ground Water Considerations (905kb)
  • Chapter 8: Siting Agricultural Waste Management Systems (2.4mb)
  • Chapter 9: Agricultural Waste Management Systems (760kb)
  • Chapter 10: Agricultural Waste Management System Component Design (08/2009))
    • Chapter 10: Appendix A - Blank Worksheets (68kb)
    • Chapter 10: Appendix B - Rainfall Intensity Maps (711kb)
    • Chapter 10: Appendix C - Runoff from Feedlots and Evaporation (11mb)
    • Chapter 10: Appendix D DRAFT - Geotechnical Designs and Construction Guidelines (08/2009)
  • Chapter 11: Waste Utilization (235kb)
  • Chapter 12: Waste Management Equipment (9mb)
  • Chapter 13: Operation, Maintenance, and Safety (124kb)
    • Chapter 13: Appendix A - Calibrating Manure Spreaders (285kb)
    • Chapter 13: Appendix B - Manure, Soil, and Plant Testing (45kb)
    • Chapter 13: Appendix C - Operation, Maintenance, and Safety Guidelines (43kb)
    • Chapter 13: Appendix D - Agricultural Waste Management System Troubleshooting Guidelines (25kb)
    • Chapter 13: Appendix E - Example Agricultural Waste Management System Plan (24kb)
  • Chapter 15: Computer Software and Models (13kb)
    • Conversion Factors and Tables (26kb)
    • Glossary (43kb)
• NRCS Animal Waste Management technical references and tools page

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Soils
• Chapter 3 Crops
• Chapter 4 Water Requirements
• Chapter 5 Selecting an Irrigation Method
• Chapter 6 Irrigation System Design
• Chapter 7 Farm Distribution Components
• Chapter 8 Project and Farm Irrigation Water Requirements
• Chapter 9 Irrigation Water Management
• Chapter 10 Conservation Management Systems and Irrigation Planning
• Chapter 11 Economic Evaluations
• Chapter 12 Energy Use and Conservation
• Chapter 13 Quality of Water Supply
• Chapter 14 Environmental Concerns
• Chapter 15 Resource Planning and Evaluation Tools and Worksheets
• Chapter 16 Special Use Tables, Charts, and Conversions
• Chapter 17 Glossary and References
  

• Chapter 1 – Introduction:  Ecological and Physical Considerations for Stream Projects
• Chapter 2 – Goals, Objectives, and Risk
• Chapter 3 – Site Assessment and Investigation
• Chapter 4 – Stream Restoration Design Process
• Chapter 5 – Stream Hydrology
• Chapter 6 – Stream Hydraulics
• Chapter 7 – Basic Principles of Channel Design
• Chapter 8 – Threshold Channel Design
• Chapter 9 – Alluvial Channel Design
• Chapter 10 - Two-Stage Channel Design
• Chapter 11 – Rosgen Geomorphic Channel Design
• Chapter 12 – Channel Alignment and Variability Design
• Chapter 13 – Sediment Impact Assessments
• Chapter 14 – Treatment Technique Design
• Chapter 15 – Project Implementation
• Chapter 16 – Maintenance and Monitoring
• Chapter 17 – Permitting Overview
• Appendix A  Postscript
• Appendix B  References

Technical Supplements

• Introduction
• TS2  Use of Historic Information for Design
• TS3A  Stream Corridor Inventory and Assessment Techniques
• TS3B  Using Aerial Videography and GIS for Stream Channel Stabilization in the Deep Loess  Region of Western Iowa
• TS3C  Streambank Inventory and Evaluation
• TS3D  Overview of United States Bats
• TS3E  Rosgen Stream Classification Technique – Supplemental Materials
• TS5  Developing Regional Relationships for Bankfull Discharge Using Bankfull Indices
• TS13A  Guidelines for Sampling Bed Material
• TS13B  Sediment Budget Example
• TS14A  Soil Properties and Special Geotechnical Problems Related to Stream Stabilization Projects
• TS14B  Scour Calculations
• TS14C  Stone Sizing Criteria
• TS14D  Geosynthetics in Stream Restoration
• TS14E  Use and Design of Soil Anchors
• TS14F  Pile Foundations
• TS14G  Grade Stabilization Techniques
• TS14H  Flow Changing Techniques
• TS14I  Streambank Soil Bioengineering
• TS14J  Use of Large Woody Material for Habitat and Bank Protection
• TS14K  Streambank Armor Protection with Stone Structures
• TS14L  Use of Articulating Concrete Block Revetment Systems for Systems for Stream Restoration and Stabilization Projects
• TS14M  Vegetated Rock Walls
• TS14N  Fish Passage and Screening Design
• TS14O  Stream Habitat Enhancement Using LUNKERS
• TS14P  Gullies and Their Control
• TS14Q  Abutment Design for Small Bridges
• TS14R  Design and Use of Sheet Pile Walls in Stream Restoration and Stabilization Projects
• TS14S  Sizing Stream Setbacks to Help Maintain Stream Stability

Case Studies

• Introduction
• CS1  Chalk Creek, Summit County, Utah
• CS2  Goode Road/Cottonwood Creek, Hutchins, Texas
• CS3  Little Elk River, Price County, Wisconsin
• CS4  Silver Creek, Silver Creek, New York
• CS5  Rose River, Madison County, Virginia
• CS6  Big Bear Creek, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
• CS7  Spafford Creek, Otisco Lake Watershed, New York
• CS8  Copper Mine Brook, Burlington, Connecticut
• CS9  Little Blue River, Washington County, Kansas
• CS10  Newaukum River, Lewis County, Washington
• CS11  Streambank Stabilization in the Red River Basin, North Dakota
• CS12  Grade Control Structures in Western Iowa Streams
• CS13  Owl Creek Farms, North Branch of the Kokosing River, Knox County, Ohio
• CS14  Streambank Stabilization in the Merrimack River Basin, New Hampshire
• CS15  Streambank Stabilization in the Guadalupe River Basin, Santa Clara County, California
• CS16  Coffee Creek, Edmond, Oklahoma
• CS17  Stream Barbs on the Calapooia River, Oregon
• CS18  Wiley Creek, Sweet Home, Oregon