Rapid City is a rapidly growing city in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Burns & McDonnell is preparing a comprehensive upgrade to the City’s Utility Master Plan.
The water system includes eight main service levels and several smaller reduced pressure zones served through PRVs to provide adequate pressures across a mountainous service area. Water supply facilities include infiltration galleries, deep wells and a surface reservoir water treatment plant. The Rapid City water distribution and wastewater collection models use the latest software (InfoWater and InfoSewer by MWH-Soft) fully integrated with the comprehensive GIS system prepared by Burns & McDonnell. Water demands are projected and assigned for modeling using GIS tools applied to existing metered use, existing and future land use maps, and planned water use criteria.