Investing in the Future: Sustainable Development of Dams and Levees

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

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Elevate

CONFERENCE CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 & DECLARED NATIONAL STATE OF EMERGENCY however the Proceedings are available via the following link. Contact USSD to obtain the appropriate User Name and Password to access them (free for USSD members).

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. Proceedings are available via the following link. Contact USSD to obtain the appropriate User Name and Password to access them (free for USSD members).

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“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

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• 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
• 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

Abstracts are not available. If you would like a copy of a paper, or the whole Proceedings, contact USSD.

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

Modernization and Optimization of Existing Dams and Reservoirs

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 5-9, 2007

Abstracts are not available. If you would like a copy of a paper, or the whole Proceedings, contact USSD.

The Role of Dams in the 21st Century.

San Antonio, Texas, on May 1-5, 2006

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