Introduction to Adopt-A-Hydrant

Adopt-A-Hydrant can be used to operate hydrant adoption programs that allow volunteers to adopt hydrants and keep them free from obstructions like snow or vegetation.

Heavy snowfall, or tall grass and shrubs, make fire hydrants difficult to locate quickly. While routine hydrant maintenance ensures hydrants are more accessible, the sheer volume of hydrants in a community makes it difficult to ensure every hydrant is accessible during the summer and winter months.

Many communities have implemented hydrant adoption programs to mitigate these risks. These programs help fire departments, and water utilities, keep hydrants clear of snow and vegetation. Adopt-A-Hydrant programs leverage volunteers to regularly remove these obstructions around hydrants. In some cases, volunteers may be asked to check on an adopted hydrant after a snowstorm or during the summer months when grass and shrubs grow quickly. This simple action can impact the time it takes firefighters to access a hydrant during an emergency.

The Adopt-A-Hydrant solution delivers a set of capabilities that help you enlist community volunteers to clear obstructions around hydrants, manage program participants, and monitor the performance of the adoption program.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Adopt-A-Hydrant requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Hub Premium
• ArcGIS Survey123 Connect

Information products

Adopt-A-Hydrant includes the following:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Adopt-A-Hydrant	An ArcGIS Hub site used by the general public to learn how they get involved in the Adopt-A-Hydrant program.	Not required
Adopt-A-Hydrant	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by volunteers to adopt hydrants and report that they are clear of obstructions like snow or debris.	Community account
Adopt-A-Hydrant Dashboard	An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by volunteer coordinators to track effectiveness of the Adopt-A-Hydrant program.	Contributor
Adopt-A-Hydrant Manager	An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by volunteer coordinators to review volunteer applications and update hydrant adoption details.	Contributor
Fire Hydrant Viewer	An ArcGIS Media Map app used by the general public to view hydrants and their adoption status.	Not required
Fire Hydrant Volunteer Application	An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the general public to express interest in the Adopt-A-Hydrant program.	Community account
Fire Hydrant Volunteer Notebook	An ArcGIS Notebooks app used to grant approved volunteers access to the Adopt-A-Hydrant program.	Creator

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.1 (Nov 2024)	The Adopt-A-Hydrant Manager app has been updated to use ArcGIS Instant Apps instead of Crowdsource Manager. The Fire Hydrant Volunteer Notebook has been updated with a new notebook runtime. A new Adopt-A-Hydrant web map replaces the Fire Hydrants and Volunteers web maps. The Fire Hydrant Viewer, Adopt-A-Hydrant, and Adopt-A-Hydrant Dashboard maps have been updated with improved cartography. The Adopt-A-Hydrant ArcGIS Dashboards app has been updated to show all adopted hydrants in the list instead of only a selection. The Fire Hydrant Viewer has been updated to support a new map with improved cartography.
1.0 (Jun 2023)	First release of Adopt-A-Hydrant.