Except safety consideration, hydraulic design should satisfy the demands in the ecological point of the view. Taking a robust and user-friendly hydraulic computational model can speed up effectively the hydraulic engineering design and layout. The HEC-RAS model was developed by the Hydrologic Engineering Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This software allows the user to perform one-dimensional hydraulic computation based on various geometric characteristics, roughness of river sections and contraction/expansion effects of hydraulic structures in a river. The Tin-Chi-Lan-Kan Creek located in the Taipei County is selected as a study site. An experimental study is also conducted by constructing the physical model for this site. The measured water levels are compared with the calculated results by HEC-RAS model. The applications of HEC-RAS model in the Tin-Chi-Lan-Kan Creek demonstrate the effective potential in the upper land streams.