Under their water quality permitting, NCDOT is required to monitor stormwater controls along their projects. Traditionally, this has been handled by taking daily rainfall measurements at each project site. However, collection of this data and monitoring requires substantial manual labor. The State Climate Office of North Carolina at NC State University (SCO) has developed an automated tool for NCDOT that provides rainfall monitoring and alert services using precipitation estimates derived from weather radar combined with available surface rain gauges.
This heavy rainfall monitoring and alert tool has been estimated to save in excess of 113,000 work hours each year since 2005. This effort by NCDOT and SCO has received several state and national awards. This proposal will continue maintenance of the current NCDOT Precipitation
Alert tool, upgrade and modernize the user login and management functions, and also migrate the IT infrastructure to a more robust and stable infrastructure at NCSU Office of Information Technology.
