Model your system before it tells you where it's failing.
Hydraulic model creation, calibration, operations & maintenance support, and capacity forecasting for water districts — delivered by a licensed engineering practice built specifically around industry-standard modeling software and utility-side distribution work.
Three ways to put a working model behind your decisions.
Each engagement is scoped around a specific operational need — not a bundled package. Districts typically start with one and expand into the others as the model proves useful.
Build a model that matches your system, not just your record drawings.
Distribution network built in industry-standard hydraulic modeling software from as-builts, GIS, and field-verified conditions — then calibrated against hydrant flow testing and pressure logging until it reproduces observed system behavior within accepted tolerance.
Keep the model current as your system changes.
New mains, valve work, pump curve updates, and tank operations rolled into the model on an ongoing basis — so it stays a live operations tool your staff can query, not a report that goes stale after year one.
Know what your system can absorb before you approve it.
New development connections, build-out scenarios, and long-term demand growth evaluated against actual hydraulic capacity — with pressure and fire-flow results your board can act on directly.
How a modeling engagement runs, start to finish.
Every model is only as good as the data and calibration behind it. This is the sequence that produces a model your operations staff will actually trust.
Data Collection & Field Verification
As-built plans, GIS, pump curves, and tank data gathered and cross-checked against field-observed conditions — valve locations, pipe materials, and infrastructure condition confirmed on site where field verification adds value.
Model Construction
Network built in industry-standard hydraulic modeling software from verified system data — junctions, pipes, tanks, pumps, and control valves represented as they actually operate.
Calibration
Hydrant flow and pressure tests run against the model; results compared and adjusted until the model reproduces field-observed conditions within accepted tolerance.
Deliverable & Handoff
Calibrated model file, summary report, and a working walkthrough so your staff can run scenarios independently going forward. For districts that would rather the model stay continuously maintained — updated as the system changes and re-run against new demand data — an ongoing retainer is available in place of a one-time handoff.
Licensed, and built for water utility work specifically.
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License
Practice operates under a New York State Professional Engineer license — Civil / Water Resources & Environmental.
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Background
Grounded in water main design, hydraulic modeling, and fire-flow analysis across utility- and consulting-side work — including developer water-availability studies and system-wide distribution modeling.
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Software
Industry-standard hydraulic modeling software, applied to real distribution systems — not a general-purpose modeling background applied to water as one sector among many.
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Focus
Water districts, exclusively. No overlapping consulting lines competing for attention — modeling and forecasting is the practice.
Start with a conversation about your system.
No sales process — describe what you're working with and what you need, and expect a scoped, specific response.
- info@barnoskiengineering.com
- Firm
- Barnoski Engineering, PLLC
- Service Area
- New York State water districts
- Beyond New York
- Additional state licensure considered for the right engagement.