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F-2. RESOLUTION FOR ALERT 2: REAL-TIME MONITORING FOR AUTOMATED FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM Adopt Resolution FCD 2013R004 for the ALERT 2: Real-time Monitoring for Automated Flood Warning System Project (Project #017), authorizing the Chief Engineer and General Manager of the Flood Control District of Maricopa County (District) to include Project funding in the District’s Five-Year Capital Improvement Program; advertise, select, negotiate, and award contracts for Project engineering and construction services; and expend funds necessary to upgrade the existing flood warning system, subject to the ratification and approval of the Board. The Flood Control District of Maricopa County operates a 24-hour rain, stream and weather gage network which provides "real-time" information to the County and many other agencies about rainfall, floods and weather conditions in Maricopa County. This network operates in the National Weather Service ALERT (Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time) format and is commonly referred to as an ALERT system. The ALERT system uses "automatic" telemetry gages for data collection. Data is also used to reconstruct storm events in order to show the origin of flooding problems and to provide data for use in floodplain studies, computer modeling of watersheds and design of future flood control structures. ALERT2 is the new standard protocol designed to replace the existing ALERT. ALERT2 provides a graceful transition of real-time data collection systems from providing slow, lean, error-prone environmental data to receiving fast, information-rich, virtually error-free knowledge about events in the real world. It differs from ALERT in that it is much faster, carries more information, and operates virtually error free. Using a channel sharing technique called TDMA, where each transmitter has its own brief time slot in which to transmit, the message contention and data loss problems of ALERT can be minimized. It has a large enough ID space to eliminate the ID assignment problems common in some areas of the country. This Agenda Item impacts Supervisorial Districts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. (C-69-14-007-6-00)