The Addison Township Fire Department, a rural fire district in Michigan, can not provide adequate fire flow resulting in a risk to property and firefighters' safety. The department uses a combination of tanker shuttle and relay pump operations to meet water supply needs but does not have a method of determining needed fire flow or a guideline as to the type of water supply operation to use. A literary review, surveys and action based research were used to determine key elements, preferred operational methods and guidelines necessary for an adequate rural water supply system. Tanker shuttle and relay pump training evolutions were conducted and used to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of each type of operation, which determined that for the ATFD a relay pumping operation provided a high capacity water supply and was a more efficient use of manpower than a tanker shuttle operation.Recommendations from this project included determining an acceptable formula for calculating needed fire flow and implementing an automatic mutual aid system. It was also recommended to use the new fire flow requirements and available mutual aid as a guide to create a water supply solution for each of the significant fire risks within the fire district. Each water supply solution contains the units responding, the water source to be used, the type of water supply operation and a detailed description of what each unit will do within the water supply system. Updating the standard operating guideline was also recommended to clarify when a relay pump and when a tanker shuttle will be used for occupancies without a water supply solution.