Your water and your buildings, known before the call.
At two in the morning, the two things you can't learn fast are where the water is and what's inside the building. WatchRoom keeps both: every hydrant with its real flow, and every pre-planned building with what first-arriving units need.
Every hydrant on a live map, color-coded by flow
Your whole district at a glance — each hydrant colored by its NFPA 291 class, from light blue 1,500+ GPM down, with the class counts totaled in the legend. The list alongside shows each hydrant's inspection and flow-test status and its measured flow. Filter by class, inspection status, or in and out of service; an out-of-service hydrant is flagged so nobody lays out to a dead one.
The flow math, done for you
Log a flow test with your static, residual, and pitot readings, and WatchRoom computes the discharge and the flow available at 20 psi residual — the NFPA 291 number ISO and your water authority both want — then classifies the hydrant from it. No formula sheet on a clipboard, no arguing about the exponent.
Each hydrant carries its owner, outlet configuration (which caps its FSRS-creditable flow), inspection history on an annual cadence, and flow tests on the five-year cadence NFPA 291 expects. Directions to the hydrant are one tap.
Rural water counts too
Dry hydrants, cisterns, and draft sites live on the same map with the same records — because in a rural district, the lake is part of your water supply and your tanker shuttle plan should know it. Adding any of them from the field is built for the field: stand at the hydrant and tap “use my location” for a curb-accurate GPS pin, or describe it by voice and confirm.
Pre-plans that outlive the person who knew the building
Every pre-planned building carries the NFPA 1620 essentials in your own words: hazards (“balcony seating, old wiring”), access (“Knox box at fellowship hall”), utility shutoffs, nearest water and what it flows, and a tactical note written by your department for your district. Construction type, stories, square footage, and a contact with a phone number round it out.
Walk the building once a year, log the visit — who led it, which crew, what changed — and the plan stays current. The map shows every building's currency at a glance, and current pre-plans earn real credit in the ISO training score (FSRS 580.H).
Import the water authority's list
Drop in the hydrant spreadsheet from the water department and WatchRoom maps the columns, plots the coordinates, and files the flow data — your whole district in minutes.
The supply-system picture
The ISO tab rolls hydrant size/type, inspection-and-testing credit, and the 30-point supply system (CSS) into one honest view of your FSRS 640 water score, with what's still needed spelled out.
Exports for the water authority
Hydrant lists and flow histories export as branded PDFs or spreadsheets — the report the city or the water board asks for every year, in one click.
Part of the ISO Readiness module (+$20/month). Hydrants and flow tests, pre-plans, community risk logging, the readiness dashboard, and filled-out ISO forms, on top of the $30 base. See full pricing.
Try it with your department's records.
Fourteen days, every module on, no credit card. Import your spreadsheets and see what your records look like when they keep themselves.
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