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BOSS RiverCAD® is a sophisticated river modeling software that completely supports HEC-RAS and HEC-2 within AutoCAD or its own stand-alone CAD environment. RiverCAD makes it even easier to compute water surface profiles for modeling bridges, culverts, spillways, levees, bridge scour, floodway delineation, floodplain reclamation, stream diversions, channel improvements, and split flows. RiverCAD reads and writes data from the latest versions of HEC-RAS and HEC-2. Find out what our clients are saying about RiverCAD®.

• HRG - Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc.
• Scott Wilson
• Earth Tech, Inc.
• Gannet Fleming, Inc.
• Chester, Ploussas, Lisowsky Partnership, LLP
• BAWCE - Blaine A Womer Civil Engineering
• Bohler Engineering, P.C.
• EDAW (Aust) Pty Limited
• Georgia Civil, Inc.
• AB Consultants, Inc.
• Salomon & Associates
• Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc.
• Bohler Engineering
• Exponent, Inc.
• Medina Consultants, Inc.
• Chris Brooker & Associates
• CDG Engineers Architects Planners, Inc.
• Hatch Energy
• Trow Associates, Inc.
• GR Williams Engineering, Inc.
• LC Engineering Group
• MSE - Technology Applications
• Arroyo Engineering Tucson, Arizona
• Sessions Consulting Engineers
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District
• Black & Veatch Corporation, Kansas City, MO
• WEEKS Consulting Ltd.
• Engineering Services Inc.
• Northern Arizona University
• FTN Associates, Ltd.
• Joe Deom Associates
• WEST Consultants, Inc.

Jemie Dababneh, Ph.D.
HRG - Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc.
Harrisburg, PA

RiverCAD is a powerful tool. I have been using it for the last 8 months.

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Olaf Bierfreund
Associate Civil Engineer
Scott Wilson
Solihull, West Midlands
United Kingdom

We have found BOSS RiverCAD extremely easy to use and learn. We were impressed with the level of service provided, and with the speed of response to queries, which allowed us to assist our developer clients with their schemes.

We believe the existing package offers excellent value for money, and allows us to provide assessments of pre- and post development scenarios for approval by relevant authorities in a speedy manner. By allowing to export results into GIS systems, we can also immediately provide relevant new mapping to such authorities.

Thanks for coming up with this software. It is simply very good.

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Mike Curran
Earth Tech, Inc.
South Portland, ME

The floodplain automation in RiverCAD has saved us time and money. The technical support was very helpful and willing to take the time to walk us through our questions and troubles. I would recommend RiverCAD to anyone doing floodplain modeling and analysis.

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Ethan Hynick
Gannet Fleming, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ

RiverCAD is an excellent tool to use, in conjunction with
HEC-RAS, to quickly cut cross-sections and for use in floodplain mapping.

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Jeff Fedorchak
Project Engineer
Chester, Ploussas, Lisowsky Partnership, LLP
Matawan, NJ

We are very happy with RiverCAD and especially like the way it works in conjunction with AutoCAD. RiverCAD has certainly met our expectation.

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Reed W. Searl, P.E.
Project Manager
BAWCE - Blaine A Womer Civil Engineering
Hemet, CA

Just wanted to thank you for your BOSS International software. I personally bought the RiverCAD XP, Floodplain Mapping, and DTM Interface Module in December of 2007.

This was my first project using HEC-RAS and it involved the largest river in the valley. I obtained some HEC-RAS data from two other engineering companies and melded two projects together by adjusting datum and by adding junctions and additional cross sections.

The project, a stockpile plan that is in a floodplain, was approved the first time through by the City's plan checker and the site is currently being graded. Our client and my boss were impressed and I was reimbursed immediately for the purchase.

Please thank Matt and Chris in Tech Support for their continued assistance.

I look forward to future HEC-RAS projects using BOSS International's software.

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Limin (John) Zhang, P.E.
Bohler Engineering, P.C.
Warren, NJ

RiverCAD is a powerful software—and is user friendly. It saves me a lot of time in automating the generation of cross sections and in performing floodplain delineations. I like how it can rescale and rearrange the cross sections and profile plots very easily. What is great is that it links HEC-RAS with AutoCAD, and once you have created your cross sections, you can run the HEC-RAS analysis and then have it automatically generate the floodplain map—and the AutoCAD drawing is completed—ready to go! Overall, I think that RiverCAD provides a very smooth workflow—speeding up the engineering process. This software meets and exceeds my expectations.

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Dr. Dominic (Dom) Blackham
Associate Director
EDAW (Aust) Pty Limited
Ultimo, Sydney, Australia

You can rest assured however that I am very pleased with RiverCAD and will be promoting its use as widely as possible in our project work.

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Paul Oglesby, P.E.
Georgia Civil, Inc.
Madison, GA

We have established a new civil engineering firm approximately 2 years ago. We have purchased new software for all applications, and the software we purchased for modeling flood studies was RiverCAD. Chris Maeder met with our staff over a 2 day period for software training that was invaluable to our company. We have had a few issues with learning the software, and the follow up technical assistance has been with an almost immediate response. We have enjoyed the new relationship with BOSS, and are now looking into purchasing their StormNET package. I would highly recommend RiverCAD software to other engineers.

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Chinmay G. Vyas, P.E.
Vice President
AB Consultants, Inc.
Lanham, MD

RiverCAD can perform floodplain / floodway analysis iterations at a very fast rate--orders of magnitude faster than the US Army Corps HEC-RAS can.

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Jiginesh Patel
AB Consultants, Inc.
Lanham, MD

We are using RiverCAD for floodplain studies and bridge scour studies. The RiverCAD software is very good.

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Dennis Sanders, P.E.
Project Manager
Salomon & Associates, LLP

RiverCAD greatly increased our engineering productivity for HEC-RAS studies. This software is impressive.

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John DeGunya, P.E.
Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc.
Fresno, CA

RiverCAD will be excellent for our FEMA CLOMR and LOMR floodplain modeling work.

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Dennis Mills, P.E.
Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc.
Visalia, CA

RiverCAD's thorough channel analysis and time savings is great. This software is impressive.

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Alejandro Daza
Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc.
Bakersfield, CA

I will be able to apply RiverCAD to our water resources and land development projects. I would recommend RiverCAD because of the time savings capabilities of the software.

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Robert W. High, P.E.
Bohler Engineering, P.C.
Warren, NJ

RiverCAD will allow us to perform floodplain delineation for site development parcels.

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John Zhang, P.E.
Bohler Engineering, P.C.
Warren, NJ

The RiverCAD software is extremely powerful. I have a project to start on right away.

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Mr. Jimmy Medellin
Exponent, Inc.
Irvine, CA

RiverCAD will greatly increase our efficiency in performing HEC-RAS studies.

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Mr. Adolph Lugo
Exponent, Inc.
San Diego, CA

We do a lot of flood control projects. RiverCAD cuts the time used to develop a model--allowing you to be more competitive in the consulting market.

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William Sherlock
Medina Consultants, Inc.
Hackettstown, NJ

RiverCAD is an extremely useful tool for floodplain mapping.

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Jose Delgado
Medina Consultants, Inc.
Lyndhurst, NJ

RiverCAD will save us a great deal of time and production work in FEMA projects.

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Hani Rimawi, P.E., CFM
Medina Consultants, Inc.
Hackettstown, NJ

RiverCAD will be implemented into our FEMA H&H flood insurance studies, and will greatly help improve our in-house procedures for riverine modeling. RiverCAD is a very useful tool for engineers involved in H&H modeling.

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Name with held upon request
Bethlehem, PA

I don't really want to recommend this product to anyone else, since we'd lose the advantage that we have using it.

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Chris Brooker, Director
Chris Brooker & Associates
Fourways, South Africa

Thanks for your very prompt reply - you guys are amazing. You should give lessons in customer service.

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Katerina Polovina
CDG Engineers Architects Planners, Inc.
St. Louis, MO

Thank you for your assistance on using RiverCAD. Your help is really appreciated. Please keep CDG Engineers posted for your latest new features on RiverCAD.

Thank you again.

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Dave O'Driscoll
Hatch Energy
St. Johns, NF, Canada

I can see applications for this software useful in almost all aspects of my job.

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Imtiaz Shah
Trow Associates, Inc.
Brampton, ON, Canada

I really appreciate the way BOSS International respond to the help of the client. It is really encouraging and efficient.

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Blaine Nite
GR Williams Engineering, Inc.
Rexburg, ID

Awesome! Thanks for getting this out so quickly.

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Quang Tran
Staff Engineer
LC Engineering Group
Thousand Oaks, CA

Both RiverCAD and StormNET are super sophisticated programs capable of analyzing any size watershed or river I've thrown at it. The programs simplify the entire process. The modeler can change design storm with a simple click of the mouse, this saves hours of hand computations. RiverCAD's ability to interface with HEC-RAS, provides the much awaited solution to HEC-RAS slow cross section input method. Dozens of cross sections can be drawn up within hours. An experienced modeler can independently handle long lengths of rivers with ease. Moreover, Chris Meader has been and continues to be a great help in utilizing both StormNET and RiverCAD. Chris is extremely knowledgeable and friendly during our phone conversations in assisting me with technical support.

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Dr. Marek Zaluski
MSE - Technology Applications
200 Technology Way
Butte, MT

This letter is being sent to you to express my appreciation for the support that was delivered by BOSS engineers in a timely and professional manner that meets, if not exceeds, industry standards that I am aware of.

On the same note, I cannot miss this opportunity for acknowledging the excellent and comprehensive review of our floodplain delineation project provided by BOSS engineers in March this year.

Please spread the word of my gratitude to appropriate staff involved, especially Chris Maeder whom I have had the pleasure to communicate with the most.

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Justin Turner, P.E.
Arroyo Engineering
Tucson, Arizona

Thank you again for helping me resolve my technical problem. I'm continually amazed at the speed with which you reply to our request for technical assistance. In this case, your reply came within about an hour. Given the ease of use, high quality of your software, user training, and prompt technical support, we will certainly continue to use and upgrade BOSS RiverCAD. As consulting water resources engineers, we find BOSS RiverCAD to be one the most important computational tools we offer to our client base.

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Kerry Sessions
Sessions Consulting Engineers
San Clemente, CA

I just wanted to drop you a quick note and let you know that I completed my report and submitted it yesterday.  I want to thank you all for all the time you spent and the quick response you had to my questions.  I'm very pleased that I made the decision to purchase this software through Boss International. I look forward to working with you in the future.

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Scott A. Henderson, P.E.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Tulsa District
Tulsa, OK

I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know how much I appreciate your superb customer support of RiverCAD. The Tulsa District Corps of Engineers has been using this product extensively and the support you have furnished us is the best software support I have encountered. Your timely advice and guidance has enabled us to meet tight schedules and develop good graphical products for our customers. Your organization is a model of how things should be done.

RiverCAD is a great product and your customer service is exceptional.

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Rafael E. Frias, III, E.I.T
Black & Veatch Corporation
Kansas City, MO

Thank you for having great engineering information available in your web site.

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Danny Curtis
WEEKS Consulting Ltd.
A Bureau Veritas Company

I have used the RiverCAD to carry out it's first full project! It is absolutely brilliant.  I managed to construct a 21 section river model in less than an hour. It would have taken me at least half a day before! It is paying for itself already and is proving to be a very powerful and productive tool.

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Cable Murray
Engineering Services Inc.
Vernal, UT

The introductory sales presentation given was very informative and helpful. The presentation got right to the point while demonstrating the capabilities of RiverCAD. The program loaded easily, and automatically attached itself to AutoCAD 2000. The User's Manual is very easy to use with great step-by-step instructions and graphics. I am very impressed with the report output capabilities of BOSS. Technical support has also been great. Chris Maeder has been a great help by responding to my phone calls and e-mail's the same day or the first of the next day. Overall RiverCAD has been a great tool in helping us with our current project. A real nice change from input files for HEC-2 and more Fortran or DOS based programs. Love it!

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Sean Welch, M.E.
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ

I want to thank you for the outstanding support you have provided Northern Arizona University (NAU). I have related to you many times what an outstanding product the RiverCAD is. As a research entity working with rural watersheds, river hydraulics and stream restoration designs, RiverCAD has demonstrated itself to be an invaluable tool. I recently completed my masters of engineering thesis in which potential stream restoration designs were evaluated. Using the RiverCAD interface with HEC-RAS allowed expeditious iterations of various design alternatives. Working with RiverCAD allowed me to download my survey topography, create a surface/contour map and analyze existing and design hydraulic conditions within one software environment. Thankfully I will never have to enter another GR record again!!!

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Marc C. Johnson
Senior Water Resources Engineer
FTN Associates, Ltd.
Little Rock, AR

FTN Associates Ltd. gives RiverCAD (formerly BOSS HEC-2 for AutoCAD) an enthusiastic “two thumbs up.“ We find it to be a valuable tool for creating all types of models— not just HEC-2. In addition to using it for developing HEC-2 models, we use it in developing other models that can utilize HEC-2 type input files to represent riverine, reservoir, and estuary geometry. Our clients for these studies have included the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Corps of  Engineers Districts, municipalities, developers, industries, and other consultants.

RiverCAD significantly reduces our time in developing an HEC-2 input file and interpreting its output. Its ability to graphically merge cross section data from two data sources (e.g., topo map and detailed surveys) is one of the features our engineers love. The documentation is thorough and adds a lot more explanation than the Corp's user manual on most topics—great for training new users. When digital contour data is available you get the added benefit of minimizing human error (and lots of time) in picking cross section points from a contour map. RiverCAD’ automated floodplain mapping feature also allows us to easily meet FEMA's requirement that all floodplain maps be submitted in digital format.

BOSS International's technical support is also something we appreciate. They know the product and we've never waited for more than fifteen minutes for a return call. We even called late one evening after we had just purchased RiverCAD and were surprised that someone answered the phone; it turns out we had called in the middle of the BOSS International Christmas party and they still took the time to answer our question!

Thanks for providing us with this great tool.

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Robert J. Deom, P. Eng.
Joe Deom Associates
Kahnawake, Quebec
Canada

RiverCAD for AutoCAD eliminates all the “grunt work“ normally associated with HEC-2: no more arcane data input codes and formats to remember, because BOSS handles it all. Results are interpreted much more quickly and presented in report quality form, immediately. The software paid for itself, on the first two kilometers of waterway, in reduced input and results interpretation costs.

Documentation is superb. Telephone assistance is always there, no matter how stupid the question. I am very satisfied with its performance.

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David Smith, P.E.
WEST Consultants, Inc.
San Diego, CA

As civil engineering consultants specializing in hydraulics, hydrology, and sedimentation, we are faced with challenging and unique problems all the time. A recent project falling into the category of “challenging and unique” was an FEMA floodplain study that changed in scope halfway through the study after we learned that high flows were leaving the system as split flow. The client initially requested the study to be modeled in HEC-RAS, which at the time did not support split flow. HEC-2 supports split flow, but how can HEC-RAS be converted to HEC-2? If it weren’t for RiverCAD for AutoCAD, this would have been a big problem. Fortunately, I had been using RiverCAD for AutoCAD from the start of the project. Using the provided digital topography, it was easy to use RiverCAD for AutoCAD to cut over 60 cross sections. Preferring to work in HEC-RAS, I was able to export this geometry to HEC-RAS and proceed with my modeling. When it came time to consider the flow reduction from split flow, I imported my HEC-RAS model back into RiverCAD for AutoCAD, then I exported it again to HEC-2. Simple as that!

In general we have been very pleased with BOSS products over the years, and found the technical support to be very responsive to our questions. If you are serious about being on the topo-cutting edge, RiverCAD for AutoCAD is the way to go!

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