{"id":2972095,"date":"2026-06-24T06:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2972095"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:50:36","slug":"utility-network-flow","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow","title":{"rendered":"Flow directions in ArcGIS Utility Network"},"author":304562,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23851,25741,23051],"tags":[565442,781157,36481],"industry":[],"product":[36571,36561,515312],"class_list":["post-2972095","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-management","category-electric-gas","category-water","tag-arcgis-utility-network","tag-flow-direction","tag-tracing","product-arcgis-enterprise","product-arcgis-pro","product-utility-network"],"acf":{"short_description":"Learn how you can use the utility network to analyze the flow directions of your utility data.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Customers use the ArcGIS Utility Network to manage, validate, and analyze their utility assets. The most common types of analysis rely on analysis to determine what is upstream or downstream of a given location in the network, or to identify how to isolate portions of the network from their sources\/sinks. The ArcGIS Pro 3.7\/ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1 release introduced a new feature that allows for traces to include detailed flow direction information for each element returned by the trace. This article will show how this new feature can be leveraged by developers and analysts to provide more robust forms of analysis and visualization using utility network datasets, or to integrate this flow information along with connectivity to external systems.<\/p>\n<p>The new include flow direction option is available on the Trace, Export Subnetwork, and Add Trace Configuration geoprocessing tools. This option allows users to output the flow direction calculated by the trace framework. This is useful for creating tools to help visualize flow direction, perform network analysis, or integrate utility network connectivity with external systems.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972121,"id":2972121,"title":"Include Flow Direction","filename":"Include-Flow-Direction.png","filesize":16430,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/include-flow-direction","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"The Trace GP tool has new options for including the flow direction and propagated values calculated during the trace.","name":"include-flow-direction","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:07","modified":"2026-06-23 17:10:12","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":345,"height":485,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","medium-width":186,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","medium_large-width":345,"medium_large-height":485,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","large-width":345,"large-height":485,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","1536x1536-width":345,"1536x1536-height":485,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","2048x2048-width":345,"2048x2048-height":485,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction-331x465.png","card_image-width":331,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Flow-Direction.png","wide_image-width":345,"wide_image-height":485}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>When this option is selected a field called flowDirection will appear in the JSON responses for trace with one of the following values:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>withDigitized \u2013 The flow direction on this edge goes from the first vertex to the last vertex.<\/li>\n<li>againstDigitized \u2013 The flow direction on this edge goes from the last vertex to the first vertex.<\/li>\n<li>Indeterminate \u2013 The flow direction on this edge can go in either direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","content":"<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: The flow direction returned in the JSON is value calculated using the trace and is available to any clients interacting with ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1 or later. Including flow direction in JSON files does not require upgrading the utility network schema version but does require a newer ArcGIS Pro client and ArcGIS Enterprise deployment. This value is not related to the persisted flow direction attribute used to control flow that was introduced with utility network version 7.<\/p>\n<p>This option is available for the connectivity, features, and elements result types when running an upstream, downstream or subnetwork traces on a utility network. This property will appear on every connectivity element but will only appear on feature elements that represent edges (lines, edge objects, terminal paths, and associations) that have connectivity. If the flowDirection property is not present on an edge when this option is selected, this indicates that the edge is content of another feature and does not have connectivity.<\/p>\n","image_reference":false,"layout":"standard","image_reference_figure":"","snippet":"","spotlight_name":"","section_title":"","position":"Center","spotlight_image":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Visualizing flow<\/h2>\n<p>Calculating flow is the domain of engineers, who model different scenarios of supply and demand to estimate the magnitude and direction of flow in the resources for a given scenario at a moment in time. The network model in the utility network is much simpler than that, so the flow direction it calculates uses subnetwork controllers (sources or sinks), barriers, and directional terminals to estimate the flow direction of resources in the network. This approach has more in common with a mouse wandering a maze looking for cheese than simulating water flowing through a pipe.<\/p>\n<p>The initial release of this functionality extends the Geoprocessing tools and APIs for the utility network to access the flow direction of a trace.\u00a0 At this release, no new tools have been added to ArcGIS Pro to make use of this information. However, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Esri\/arcgis-pro-sdk-community-samples\/tree\/master\/UtilityNetwork\/Show%20Flow%20Arrows\">Show Flow Arrows<\/a> community sample is available with this release which demonstrates how a developer can create a custom add-in to visualize flow in a subnetwork.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972119,"id":2972119,"title":"Electric Flow Direction","filename":"Electric-Flow-Direction.png","filesize":30948,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/electric-flow-direction","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"An example of a small section of an electric circuit with the flow direction visualized using the Show Flow Arrows community sample.","name":"electric-flow-direction","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:04","modified":"2026-06-23 17:10:56","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":318,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":236,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":318,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","large-width":624,"large-height":318,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":318,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":318,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","card_image-width":624,"card_image-height":318,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Electric-Flow-Direction.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":318}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The community sample also lets you import and visualize the flow from a JSON file produced by the Trace or Export Subnetwork tools. This lets you see the flow direction from a particular trace, allowing you to visualize the impacts that placing additional start locations or barriers can have on tracing. This can be useful for performing what-if scenarios like outage response. Below you can see an example of how setting barriers for a trace can turn a looped area in a water network (first graphic) into an area of directional flow useful for hydrant flushing or for planning a district metered area (second graphic).<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972122,"id":2972122,"title":"Indeterminate Flow Direction","filename":"Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","filesize":53929,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/indeterminate-flow-direction","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"A pressure zone within a water network has a mixture of determinate (black) and indeterminate (grey) flow.","name":"indeterminate-flow-direction","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:09","modified":"2026-06-24 13:28:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":303,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":303,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","large-width":624,"large-height":303,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":303,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":303,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","card_image-width":624,"card_image-height":303,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Indeterminate-Flow-Direction.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":303}},"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972120,"id":2972120,"title":"Include Barriers","filename":"Include-Barriers.png","filesize":54780,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/include-barriers","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"Adding barriers to the trace, simulating closed valves, allows you to create determinate flow in the pressure zone. This can be used to simulate hydrant flushing or other important workflows.","name":"include-barriers","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:06","modified":"2026-06-24 13:38:15","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":215,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":160,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":215,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","large-width":624,"large-height":215,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":215,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":215,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","card_image-width":624,"card_image-height":215,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Include-Barriers.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":215}},"image_position":"right-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Indeterminate Flow<\/h2>\n<p>As you begin to visualize flow in your network you may notice that some features have indeterminate flow. People often refer to indeterminate flow as areas where the network is looped, but looping is just one of several causes of indeterminate flow we will explore in this article. What is indeterminate flow? Indeterminate flow occurs whenever the direction of flow in the network could be either direction, depending on the supply and demands of the network at a particular moment.<\/p>\n<p>Most electrical networks are designed to have very little indeterminate flow. Electricity is expected to flow one direction through a line at any given moment and changing that direction requires opening\/closing switches to reroute power within the network.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972124,"id":2972124,"title":"Radial Flow","filename":"Radial-Flow.png","filesize":111645,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/radial-flow","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"Flow directions in radial networks are largely determinate. These kinds of networks are cheaper to build and easier to maintain but tend to have less reliability than more complex network topologies.","name":"radial-flow","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:13","modified":"2026-06-23 17:19:11","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":455,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","medium-width":358,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":455,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","large-width":624,"large-height":455,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":455,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":455,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","card_image-width":624,"card_image-height":455,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Radial-Flow.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":455}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The exception to this is mesh networks, where multiple power sources are connected to the same grid to provide a continuous, redundant source of electricity to an area with high reliability.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972123,"id":2972123,"title":"Mesh Network","filename":"Mesh-Network.png","filesize":84989,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/mesh-network","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"Electric, low-voltage mesh networks are built with redundancy and reliability in mind. This means that flow direction in these types of networks will have a lot of indeterminate flow.","name":"mesh-network","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:11","modified":"2026-06-23 17:18:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":368,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","medium-width":443,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":368,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","large-width":624,"large-height":368,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":368,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":368,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","card_image-width":624,"card_image-height":368,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Mesh-Network.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":368}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Pressurized networks, like gas and water networks, tend to have more indeterminate flow because they are designed with looping and redundancy. This keeps resources continuously moving which prevents the buildup of materials within pipe. Looking at the same example from above we can see an example of looping in the water distribution system below.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972541,"id":2972541,"title":"Looped Distribution System","filename":"Looped-Distribution-System.png","filesize":134001,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/looped-distribution-system","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"This map shows a water distribution system. All the grey pipes represent areas of indeterminate\/looped flow within the system. Blue pipes represent determinate flow.","name":"looped-distribution-system","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-24 13:49:08","modified":"2026-06-24 13:49:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1287,"height":850,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","medium-width":395,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":507,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","large-width":1287,"large-height":850,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","1536x1536-width":1287,"1536x1536-height":850,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","2048x2048-width":1287,"2048x2048-height":850,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System-704x465.png","card_image-width":704,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Looped-Distribution-System.png","wide_image-width":1287,"wide_image-height":850}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Another common cause of indeterminate flow is when there are multiple sources providing resources to a common area, through the same pipe, but coming from different directions. You can see an example of this below, where three storage tanks are all providing water to a pressure zone, but which tank is active at a given moment would affect which direction the water would flow through the pipes.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972125,"id":2972125,"title":"Station without flow","filename":"Station-without-flow.png","filesize":37416,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/station-without-flow","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"A series of storage tanks provide a reliable source of water pressure for a small water network.","name":"station-without-flow","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":2972095,"date":"2026-06-23 16:53:14","modified":"2026-06-23 17:22:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":624,"height":614,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","medium-width":265,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","medium_large-width":624,"medium_large-height":614,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","large-width":624,"large-height":614,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","1536x1536-width":624,"1536x1536-height":614,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","2048x2048-width":624,"2048x2048-height":614,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow-473x465.png","card_image-width":473,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Station-without-flow.png","wide_image-width":624,"wide_image-height":614}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>We can verify this by operating valves so that only one tank is active at a time, then reviewing the flow in each pipe. You can see examples of this below.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":2972126,"id":2972126,"title":"Stoage 4 active","filename":"Stoage-4-active.png","filesize":38099,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Stoage-4-active.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/utility-network\/electric-gas\/utility-network-flow\/stoage-4-active","alt":"","author":"304562","description":"","caption":"Closing valves for two of the storage tanks allows a single storage tank to provide water pressure for the area. 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