In this section you will find a series of documents containing specific guidelines for the ArcHydro implementation from raw datasets. The user of spatial data and GIS may find it difficult to start from scratch the generation of an Arc Hydro Data Model due to the current status of the data at hand. More often than none, the spatial data will need to be manipulated to make it comply with the Arc Hydro Data Model standards before you can successfully accomplish any implementation of the data model for water resources.

Using this preliminary step-by-step document you may have a more comprehensive experience while creating the Arc Hydro data model for your spatial project. Below there is a list of implementation steps with links to more detailed information on how to accomplish each of them.

1. Get Digital Data

2. Generate the Geodatabase

3. Work Refinements on Data

4. Create HydroJunction

5. Build HydroNetwork

6. Set Flow Direction

7. Add TimeSeries

8. Apply the Database SCHEMA

9. Apply ArcHydroTools

10. Further Refinements