GW_Chart: A Program for Creating Specialized Graphs Used in Groundwater Studies

Release Date: August 20, 2018

Overview of GW_Chart

GW_Chart is a program for creating specialized graphs used in groundwater studies. It incorporates the functionality of two previous programs, Budgeteer and Hydrograph Extractor and adds additional new features. There are seven major types of graphs created with GW_Chart:

Calibration Plots
Water Budget Plots
Hydrographs
Lake Plots
Piper Diagrams
Cell Water Budgets
Farm Budgets

It reads data from the following programs to create these plots:

ZONEBUDGET
MODFLOW
MOC3D
MODFLOW2000-GWT
SUTRA
MT3D
HST3D
UCODE-2005
OPR-PPR

GW_Chart can also convert cell-by-cell budget files or zeta file generated by MODFLOW to text files.

Download Current Version of GW_Chart

The current release is GW_Chart v.1.29.0.

GW_Chart compiled for Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vistas, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10

To install, either download and run the installer or download and unzip the zip file.

GW_Chart Source Code

Gw_chart_source1_29.zip - GW_Chart is written in Object Pascal and compiled with Borland Delphi 7.0
FlowRead96.zip - Library for reading budget files (MODFLOW-2000 version 1.1 or earlier)
FlowReader.zip - Library for reading budget files (MODFLOW-2000 version 1.2 or later)
Source code for Help file

Delphi Components

These components plus a modified version of the TChart package (version 6.01) from Steema Software are required to compile GW_Chart. The required modifications of TChart are described in the file ReadMe.txt in the source code for GW_Chart above.

Documentation for GW_Chart

Winston, R.B., 2000, Graphical User Interface for MODFLOW, Version 4: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-315, 27 p.

Programs Related to GW_Chart

Find MODFLOW-Related Software

Visit the MODFLOW and Related Programs page for a list of MODFLOW-related software.

Software License and Purchase Information

This software is a product of the U.S. Geological Survey, which is part of the U.S. Government.

Cost

This software is freely distributed. There is no fee to download and (or) use this software.

License

Users do not need a license or permission from the USGS to use this software. Users can download and install as many copies of the software as they need.

Public Domain

As a work of the United States Government, this USGS product is in the public domain within the United States. You can copy, modify, distribute, and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Additionally, USGS waives copyright and related rights in the work worldwide through CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ).

SOFTWARE USER RIGHTS NOTICE

This software has been approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although the software has been subjected to rigorous review, the USGS reserves the right to update the software as needed pursuant to further analysis and review. No warranty, expressed or implied, is made by the USGS or the U.S. Government as to the functionality of the software and related material nor shall the fact of release constitute any such warranty. Furthermore, the software is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the U.S. Government shall be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use. Also refer to the USGS Water Resources Software User Rights Notice for complete use, copyright, and distribution information.

Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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