President’s Message Winter 2021

I hope this message finds all of you enjoying the cooler weather and preparing for 2022. As we transition into a new season, we celebrate the achievements seen throughout the previous year. This is certainly the case with the US Society on Dams (USSD).

As a professional organization, USSD is governed by a board elected by you. We welcomed three new board members in late 2021: Greg Paxson, PE, D.WRE, Principal / National Practice Leader for Dams, Schnabel Engineering; Bob Pike, Chief, Dam Safety Office, Bureau of Reclamation, and Christina Winckler, PE, principal engineer, Mineral Residue Facilities, Anglo American. These new board members were nominated by and voted onto the board by the USSD membership. Their addition to the board will help us to continue creating a world where all dams and levees are safe and valued by the communities they serve. I am amazed at the breadth of experience of our board members and so appreciative of the time and effort they put into their work on behalf of USSD.

Our new board members filled the vacant positions that took place earlier in 2021.  We bid farewell to three departing board members and all of us thank them for their service. The three members are Stuart Harris, Tennessee Valley Authority;

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