Safety, Security, and Emergency Response in the 21st Century

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CONFERENCE CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 & DECLARED NATIONAL STATE OF EMERGENCY however the Proceedings are still available via the following link.

April 20-24 — Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

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Second City – Second Chances: Stories of Rehabilitation, Modification, and Revitalization

April 8-11 — Chicago Hilton

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A Balancing Act: Dams, Levees and Ecosystems

April 30 through May 4, 2018, Miami, Florida

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Additional Proceedings:

“Third Workshop on Case Histories in Dam Safety Risk-Informed Decision Making”

0 USSD 2018 Risk WS INTRO

1 Glade Dam & Reservoir – PFMA — Removed at request of author.

2 TVA Presentation

3 Alcona_Bowles

4 Construction Risks at Stampede Dam Final

5 Cofferdams_Hurricanes_Hammer

6 Seqwater Portfolio Risk Assessment

7 High Hazard Dams_Osmun

8 Victoria Dam Safety_Perera

It’s A Small World: Managing Our Water Resources

April 3-7, 2017, Anaheim, California

• Proceedings for the 37th Annual Conference
• Plenary Session Presentations
  • Plenary Session 1
  • Plenary Session 2
• Environmental Sustainability Workshop Presentations
• Seismic Analysis of Concrete Dams Workshop Presentations
  • Session#1_Case Histories and Seismic PFM
  • Session#2_Field Investigations and Concrete Material Properties
  • Session#3_Field Investigations and Foundation Material Properties
  • Session#4_(Part 1) Results of 2016 USSD Monticello Workshop
  • Session#4_(Part 2) Comparison of Recorded and Computed Response of Arch Dams
  • Session#5_Linear Response History
  • Session#6_Response History Analyses with Nonlinearities
  • Session#7_Selection of Ground Motions to Represent Seismic Hazard
  • Session#8_(Part 1) Introduction to Accuracy of Analysis
  • Session#8_(Part 2) Practical Considerations for Accuracy Analysis
  • Session#9_(Part 1) Research Needs
  • Session#9_(Part 2) Research Needs
  • E1 – Thin Arch Dam Failure movie
  • M2 – Monolithic Dam Failure movie
  • M10 – One Horiz Joint movie
  • M10 – One Horiz Joint Overhead movie
  • M11 – One Vert Joint final movie
  • M11 – One Vert Joint Overhead pushthrough movie
  • M13 -17 Vert Joints movie
  • M15 – 17 Vert, 2 Horiz Final Failure movie
• Needs-to-Update-PMP-USSD-2017-ChandraPathak.pdf, Chandra S. Pathak, PhD, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Kappel-Recent Storms and PMP-USSD 2017-1, Bill Kappel, President/Chief Meteorologist, Applied Weather Associates
• Perris Dam – 2017-04-05 Seismic Remediation of Perris Dam Using CDSM, Wen Yan [Grace] Chen, PE, Michael Driller, PE, Steve Friesen, PE
• RTI Resonant Pile Driver USSD 2017 compressed, Dane Reelie, PE, Matthew Janes, PE, Resonance Technology International
• Sediment Transport Through Lake Clarke and Lake Aldred, Jon Viducich, El, Martin J. Teal, PE
• Levee Safety in the Keystone State, Andrew J. Orlovsky, PE
• PFMA-Lessons Learned for the Foundation of a Successful Dam Safety Program, Frank Blackett, PE, Douglas Boyer, PE, CEG, FERC
• When an Adjacent Watershed Inundates Your Offline Reservoir, Andy Lynch, PE, CFM, Stewart Vaghti, PE, CFM, Gannett Fleming
• First Filling Instrumentation Monitoring of the Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway, Ken Pattermann, PE, USACE
• Dam Safety and Resilient Water Management [DRO], Mike McMahon, HDR
• Geospatial Tools for Routine Dam Safety Monitoring, Zhihua Li, Yogesh Prashar, Atta Yiadom, Elizabeth Bialek, Rachel Wong, East Bay Municipal Utility District
• Effect of Antecedent Groundwater Level on Piezometric Response During Floods, Chun-Yi Kuo, PhD, PE, USACE
• Tsaile Dam Modification Project – Unearthing a Safer Dam/BIA, Stephen G. Brown, PE, Kleinfelder
• Cracking in Thin Arch Concrete Dams – Nonlinear Dynamic Structural Analysis, Sherry Hamedian, PE, Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
• Managing Flood Flows, Kristen Obermueller, Bob Beduhn, PE, HDR
• Investigating The Structural Safety of Cracked Concrete Dams, Glenn S. Tarbox, PE, P.Eng, F.ASCE, S.E.C.B., Stantec
• A New Approach for Design of the Koroglu RCC Arch/Gravity Dam, Dr. Quentin Saw, South Africa
• Risk Informed Freeboard Evaluation, David Margo, PE, USACE
• Application of Risk Assessment to an Emergency Levee design in an urban environment, Malcomb Barker, Petros Armenis, Peter Christensen, Graham Harrington
• Spillway Debris Physical Model, Kent Walker, PE
  • Link to two videos, labeled 1-B Walker Spillway Debris Phyiscal Model
• Flood Risks from Spillways Modeling and Communicating Non-Dam-Failure Flood Impacts, Rinda Tisdale, MEP, CEM, Matt Young, PE, CFM, Chris Clopper, PE (contractor0, Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs
• HEC-ResSim 3.3, New Features to Support Complex Studies, Joan Klipsch, USACE-IWR-HEC

Celebrating the Value of Dams and Levees — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Denver, Colorado, April 11-15, 2016

Managing Risk and Uncertainty — Ensuring a Sustainable Future for Dams, Levees and Reservoirs

Louisville, Kentucky, April 13-17, 2015

Dams and Extreme Events – Reducing Risk of Aging Infrastructure under Extreme Loading Conditions

San Francisco, California, April 7-11, 2014

Changing Times – The Challenges and Risks of Managing Aging Infrastructure Under a New Financial Reality

Phoenix, Arizona, February 11-15, 2013

Innovative Dam and Levee Design and Construction for Sustainable Water Management

New Orleans, Louisiana, April 23-27, 2012

21st Century Dam Design — Advances and Adaptations

San Diego, California, April 11-15, 2011

Collaborative Management of Integrated Watersheds

Sacramento, California, April 12-16, 2010

Managing Our Water Retention Systems

Nashville, Tennessee, April 20-24, 2009

The Sustainability of Experience — Investing in the Human Factor

Portland, Oregon, April 28 – May 2, 2008

The 26th USSD Annual Meeting and Conference was held in San Antonio, Texas, on May 1-5, 2006. The Theme of the Conference was The Role of Dams in the 21st Century.