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Monday, Sep 18th
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
CS3A - Concurrent Session 03A: Hardfill Dam Feasibility in a High Seismic Area
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Rajendram Arulnathan, Ph.D. – AECOM
Co-Presenter: Steven Haugaard, MS – AECOM
Public Safety at DamsRegulatory Program IssuesGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk PoliciesNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
CS3B - Concurrent Session 03B: Assessment of Aging Dams for Seismic Potential Failure Modes: A Delta Approach
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Khaled Chowdhury, Ph.D., P.E., G.E. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk Policies
Monday, Sep 18th
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
CS4B - Concurrent Session 04B: Beyond Emergency Action Plans: Leveraging Regulatory Requirements to Develop a Collaborative and Cross-Functional Hydroelectric Emergency Management Program
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Andrew Hagen – Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Co-Presenter: Ryan Conrad – Gannett Fleming
Emergency Action PlansIncident Management Exercises & TrainingPublic Safety at DamsRegulatory Program IssuesHydroelectric
Monday, Sep 18th
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
CS1D - Concurrent Session 01D: Italian Dam Failures – Important Lessons Learned from Failure of Gleno Dam (1923) and Overtopping of Vajont Dam (1963)
Location: Catalina
Presenter: Scott Arends – Hazen & Sawyer
Dam Failures and IncidentsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Case Studies
Monday, Sep 18th
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
CS4C - Concurrent Session 04C: Using GIS as a Tool in Managing a National Dam Safety Program
Location: Sierra
Presenter: C Kirk Cover – Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Dam Failures and IncidentsIncident Management Exercises & TrainingInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsRegulatory Program IssuesHydroelectricFundingNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
PLT - Assessing Dam Risk in Iowa: An Analysis of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Dam Inventory
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Abdulazeez R. Lawal – Iowa State University
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Monday, Sep 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
PLT - Digital Twins are Twice the Fun
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Brian Schroeder, P.E. – Collins Engineers Inc.
Co-Presenter: Kyle M. Nicks – Collins Engineers Inc.
Dam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
PLT - Fracture Networks in Mississippian Carbonate Rocks: Investigation of Dam Bedrock Foundations in Northeastern Oklahoma
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Melina Lazar – Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyHydroelectricGeneral Case Studies
Monday, Sep 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
PLT - Numerical Evaluation of Anti-Liquefaction Performance of Deep Soil Mixing Method under Embankment Dams
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Araz Hasheminezhad – Iowa State University
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk Policies
Monday, Sep 18th
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
PLT - Using State-of-the Art Geophysical Technologies to Assess Earthen Embankments
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Lincoln Steele – Tetra Tech
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyRegulation of Tailings DamsNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
CS7A - Concurrent Session 07A: Wanapum Dam Repair: A Challenge For Con-Tech Systems USA Inc.
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Paul Krumm
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsHydroelectricNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
CS8A - From Translational to Transformational Flood Risk Communication: How USACE is Shifting its Communication About Dams, Levees, and Flooding
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Katelyn Noland – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Co-Presenter: Adam Yeeles – HDR
Emergency Action PlansPublic Safety at DamsNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
CS7B - Concurrent Session 07B: DMAD Dam Rehabilitation Phase II
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Jed McFarlane, P.E. – Gerhart Cole, Inc.
Inspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Monday, Sep 18th
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT
CS8B - Whittier Narrows Dam: Managing Risk Thru Communication: A Partnership Between USACE and The City of Pico Rivera
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Aaron Smith – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Co-Presenter: Javier Hernandez – City of Pico Rivera
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyNew and Emerging Technologies
Monday, Sep 18th
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
CS8C - Bourbanis Dam: The Spring 2022 Emergency Response and Moving Forward to Mitigate Future Risk
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Zachary O. Herrmann – Houston Engineering, Inc.
Co-Presenter: Christi Fisher, P.E. – USDA - NRCS
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsDam RemovalEnvironmental IssuesInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Case StudiesFunding
Monday, Sep 18th
5:15 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
PLT - How Do We Get to This Gate?
Location: Oasis 3/4
Poster Presenter: Arthur Nix – Tetra Tech
Dam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee Policy
Tuesday, Sep 19th
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
CS10A - Concurrent Session 10A: Narrows Bypass Channel CFD Analysis – Modeling Challenges for Large CFD Models with Large Flows and Interpretation of Their 3-D Results
Location: Madera
Presenter: Ahintha Kandamby, Ph.D., P.E., CFM – WSP
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyNew and Emerging Technologies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
CS13A - Concurrent Session 13A: National Inventory of Low-head Dams: completion and next steps
Location: Smoketree A-E
Presenter: Rollin H. Hotchkiss, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE – Brigham Young University
Co-Presenter: Karl Kingery – Hydrometrics
Public Safety at Dams
Tuesday, Sep 19th
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
CS12B - Concurrent Session 12B: Evaluating Slope Stability of a Reclamation Dam using Three-Dimensional Limit Equilibrium Analysis
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Tyler Quick – Bureau of Reclamation
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
CS10D - Concurrent Session 10D: Garrison Dam - Iterative CFD Modeling to Evaluate Spillway Overlay Measures with 70 ft of Uplift Resistance
Location: Madera
Presenter: Chad Vensel, P.E. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
CS14A - Concurrent Session 14A: 2003 Fuse Plug Failure at Silver Lake Dam, Michigan: A Look Back at the Lasting Impacts – DFIC Decade Series
Location: Catalina
Presenter: Carmen Lepsch, P.E. – Schnabel Engineering
Co-Presenter: James Pawloski, P.E. – James T. Pawloski, PE, LLC
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsEnvironmental IssuesIncident Management Exercises & TrainingPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
CS15A - Concurrent Session 15A: Is catchment area the dominant factor for PMF estimation in a supposedly hydrologically homogeneous region?
Location: Madera
Presenter: Miguel Wong, Ph.D., P.E. – Barr Engineering Co.
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
CS16A - Concurrent Session 16A: Development of a Consistent Framework: Risk Prioritization for 36 Unsafe, High Hazard Dams in Massachusetts
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Amanda Barnett – GEI Consultants, Inc.
Dam Failures and IncidentsDam RemovalPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Risk Policies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM PDT
CS17B - Concurrent Session 17B: A Sensitivity Analysis Involving Simplified Approaches for Emergency Action Plan Development in Urbanized Settings
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Joseph Machala, P.E. – CDM Smith
Co-Presenter: Carlos Yvellez, EI – CDM Smith
Emergency Action PlansPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
CS14C - Concurrent Session 14C: 2003 Emergency at Mount Carmel Dam, North Dakota – DFIC Decade Series
Location: Catalina
Presenter: Carmen Lepsch, P.E. – Schnabel Engineering
Co-Presenter: Ben Webster, P.E., PMP – Schnabel Engineering
Dam Failures and IncidentsInspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Case Studies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
CS15C - Concurrent Session 15C: Nonlinear Watershed Behavior Using Variable Unit Hydrograph Parameters for California
Location: Madera
Presenter: Daniel Meyersohn, Ph.D., P.E. – CA Department of Water Resources
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyNew and Emerging Technologies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
CS20A - Concurrent Session 20A: Assessing Dam Performance During a Non-Failure Incident: Hurricane Fiona’s Impact on Puerto Rico Dams
Location: Madera
Presenter: Patrick Miles, P.E. – Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Co-Presenter: Molly Finster, Ph.D. – Argonne National Laboratory
Dam Failures and IncidentsIncident Management Exercises & TrainingPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Case StudiesClimate Change
Tuesday, Sep 19th
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM PDT
CS22A - Concurrent Session 22A: Owner's Perspective: Addressing Seepage Issues During Dams Normal Operation
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Mark Ickert – Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Co-Presenter: Dorota Koterba – Tarrant Regional Water District
Dam Failures and IncidentsPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Case StudiesNew and Emerging Technologies
Tuesday, Sep 19th
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
CS21C - Concurrent Session 21C: The Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program - A Solution to Making Water Infrastructure Affordable
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Kevin B. McDonald – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Public Safety at DamsFunding
Tuesday, Sep 19th
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
CS22C - Concurrent Session 22C: Century Old, Run of the River Dam, Inspected for the First Time In 70 Years
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Catrin Bryan, M.Sc. P.E. – McMillen Inc.
Co-Presenter: Jeri Timm – Public Utility No. 1 of Okanogan County
Inspection of DamsPublic Safety at DamsRegulatory Program IssuesGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Case StudiesNew and Emerging Technologies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
CS25A - Concurrent Session 25A: Effort Put on the Right Path: Safety Evaluation Risk Assessments & Risk-Informed Decision-Making for Maple Grove Dam in Colorado
Location: Madera
Presenter: Hui Ming Shih, Ph.D., P.E., CFM – CDM Smith
Co-Presenter: Carlos Yvellez, EI – CDM Smith
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsPublic Safety at DamsRegulatory Program IssuesGeneral Case Studies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
CS25C - Concurrent Session 25C: SQRA Methods Bringing Clarity to a Spillway Design Flow Decision
Location: Madera
Presenter: Cory Anderson, P.E. – Barr Engineering Co.
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Risk PoliciesGeneral Case Studies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT
CS31B - Concurrent Session 31B: Overtopping Potential for 550 Dams: Considering Storm Events with Varying Duration and Return Period
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Jacob A. Smith – North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsSecurity Programs and Protective MeasuresIncident Management Exercises & TrainingPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Risk Policies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT
CS31C - Concurrent Session 31C: Rapid Overtopping Evaluation for State-Regulated Dams in North Carolina
Location: Sierra
Presenter: Michael Crouch, P.E., CFM – RTI International
Emergency Action PlansDam Failures and IncidentsIncident Management Exercises & TrainingPublic Safety at DamsGeneral Risk PoliciesNew and Emerging Technologies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
CS29C - Concurrent Session 29C: Development of Precipitation Frequency Areal Reduction Factors for Dams in British Columbia
Location: Madera
Presenter: Kyle Chudler – RTI International
Public Safety at DamsGeneral Dam Safety or Levee PolicyGeneral Risk Policies
Wednesday, Sep 20th
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
CS34A - Concurrent Session 34A: Programmatic and Project-Specific Approaches to Using Dam Removal Projects as Dam Safety Solutions
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Meghan A. Quinn – American Rivers
Dam Failures and IncidentsDam RemovalEnvironmental IssuesPublic Safety at DamsClimate Change
Wednesday, Sep 20th
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
CS34C - Concurrent Session 34C: Dam Removal: Improving Fish Passage, Removing Hazards, and Catalyzing Community Revitalization
Location: Pasadena
Presenter: Lee Holt – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Dam RemovalEnvironmental IssuesPublic Safety at DamsClimate Change