Surface water farm systemFlood · border strip · basin · measured headgate · tailwater recovery
✓ 0 errorsIrrigation planning from source to return
Design the water
before you move the dirt.
Map your fields, ditches, pipes, headgates, and risers on your own ground — then size the system, simulate the flow, and price the job before a single yard is excavated. One browser workspace, no CAD license.
No card required. Districts: your registered customers get full access free.
8Irrigation methods
9Engineered templates
3Federal data sources
DXFCAD handoff
How it works
From an address to a working irrigation plan.
Simple enough for a landowner who has never opened CAD. Precise enough for the contractor, water official, and crew who have to build and run it.
Type the address
Start with the property. Aerial imagery, true scale, contours, soils, nearby canals, and diversions load around your ground automatically.
Draw it or generate it
Trace fields by hand, or start from a complete template — flood, border, basin, furrow, pivot, lateral move, solid set, hand move, district, city, or residential drip and sprinkler.
Size, simulate, export
Check flow, headgate capacity, set times, and warnings. Turn the water on and watch it run. Hand off DXF, JSON, or PNG.
The workspace
Two tools that share one map.
Design the system in the CAD workspace. Run and repair it in WaterOps. The same headgates, ditches, and fields carry across both.
CAD and records
Built around irrigation objects, not generic tickets.
Every field, gate, pipe, ditch, pond, contour, report, repair, part, and work order belongs on the same map.
Draw over real ground
Locate a property, work at true scale, trace fields, and place water infrastructure exactly where it actually sits — not on a blank sheet.
Terrain and soils
USGS 3DEP elevation, generated contours, and USDA soil detection inform slope, intake rate, and field water requirement.
Hydraulic sizing
Ditches, pipes, headgates, turnouts, and risers sized from the drawing — with velocity, pressure, and grade warnings.
Flow simulation
Turn the water on, operate gates, and watch live flow totals, gallons, acre-feet, and field application build up.
Parts and costs
Material lists, repair parts, estimated cost, actual cost, and work-order budgets — all from the same drawing.
Official references
Pull in canals, diversions, parcels, and water-right references from public agency data where it is available, so the plan lines up with the record.
Templates
Flood, border, furrow, district delivery, pivot, hand line, and residential lawn sprinkler — each loads pre-analyzed.
Exports
JSON project backups plus DXF for CAD, GIS, contractor, or agency handoff.
AI design analysis
Structured project data drives draft irrigation plans with stated assumptions, warnings, and the field checks worth doing before you build.
Pricing
Try it free. Pay only if it earns a spot in your workflow.
Irrigation districts and canal companies pay for the Official membership — their own registered customers get full access free. Individual ranchers and farmers who aren't with a subscribed district can join FieldFlowCAD directly.
Free trial
$0
One project, no card required
- Full CAD drawing and sizing tools
- One saved project, one time
- No AI design analysis
- No cost estimates
- No district or staff tools
FieldFlowCAD membership
$19.99/mo
or $199/yr — two months free
- Unlimited projects and cloud saves
- AI design analysis and chat assistant
- Full cost estimates and bill of materials
- For individual ranchers, farmers, and contractors
Official / district
$149/mo
or $1,999/yr
- Everything in FieldFlowCAD membership
- WaterOps staff, crew, and dispatch tools
- Your registered customers get full access free
- For irrigation districts and canal companies
Water operations
Report, schedule, repair, close the loop.
Water users, officials, and crews need one shared map for infrastructure context. WaterOps connects every report to the canal, headgate, valve, lateral, part, and work history behind it.
Customer reports
Map-click reporting ties blowouts, leaks, broken headgates, obstructions, and access notes to an exact location — not a vague phone description.
Official triage
Priority, assignment, scheduled repair date, parts needed, and official notes stay visible right beside the map.
Crew updates
Field personnel mark work in progress, add notes, record parts used, and close jobs out with actual cost from the truck.
Repair history
Infrastructure becomes a record over time: what failed, what was repaired, which parts went in, and when it happened.
District asset pins
Staff drop their own headgates, valves, pumps, and notes straight onto the district map — independent of anything a customer has drawn.
Start from the map
Your first project is free. Your ground is already on it.
Type an address and start drawing. Upgrade to FieldFlowCAD membership for unlimited projects, AI analysis, and cost estimates — or set up an Official membership for your district, with free access for every one of your customers.