Dam Safety 2018 Registration Packet

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Registration is now open at DamSafety.org/DS18


Shaping the Future with Innovative Engineering Lee Hall Dam, Newport News, Virginia

Dean B. Durkee, PhD, PE • ddurkee@gfnet.com Paul G. Schweiger, PE, CFM • pschweiger@gfnet.com Offices Worldwide • www.gannettfleming.com • 800.233.1055


WELCOME Table of Contents Welcome ..................................................................... 3 Logistical Information .............................................. 4 Schedule at a Glance ................................................ 5 Technical Sessions by Topics ................................... 6 General Sessions ........................................................ 7 Kick-Off Event ............................................................ 8 Specialty Workshop ................................................ 10 Field Trips .................................................................. 11 Guest Information ................................................... 12 Awards Luncheon .................................................... 13 Exhibitors .................................................................. 14 Sponsors .................................................................... 15

Make plans to join us in Seattle! We hope you’ll join us for Dam Safety 2018 this September in Seattle. Dam Safety 2018 marks the 35th year the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) has hosted its national conference and 2018 promises to be one of the best yet! Don’t miss the chance to learn from industry leaders, network with nearly 1,000 dam and levee safety professionals and meet representatives from over 100 of the industry’s top product and service providers. With all of the great restaurants, museums, and attractions Seattle has to offer extend your stay beyond the conference or come a little early to enjoy the Emerald City. To learn more about the conference and for agenda updates visit DamSafety.org/DS18 and remember to check back throughout the summer!

Soapbox Session ...................................................... 16 Itinerary Planner ..................................................... 17 Posters & Lightning Talks ....................................... 18 Technical Agenda .................................................... 21 Networking Opportunities ................................... 28

Stay up-to date with the latest Dam Safety 2018 information at DamSafety.org/DS18

Registration FAQs ................................................... 29 Registration Form ................................................... 30

Contact ASDSO

Dam Safety 2018 Program Committee

1.859.550.2788

Chair: John Ritchey, P.E. NJ Department of Environmental Protection

info@damsafety.org

Eric J. Ditchey, P.E. McCormick Taylor, Inc.

www.DamSafety.org

Alon Dominitz, P.E. NY Department of Environmental Conservation

239 S. Limestone St Lexington, KY 40508

John W. France, P.E., D.WRE AECOM Nathaniel Gee, P.E. Bureau of Reclamation

1.859.550.2795

Stay connected with the ASDSO community before, during, and after the conference #DamSafety18.

Sherry Hunt, Ph.D. USDA - ARS Douglas L. Johnson Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Keith Mills, P.E. OR Water Resources Department Gregory S. Paxson, P.E. Schnabel Engineering

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LOGISTICAL INFORMATION The Washington State Convention Center Located within the heart of downtown Seattle, the Washington State Convention Center is the Northwest’s premier meeting destination. With a public art collection, retail and dining options you won’t need to leave the center all day. However, if you have time within a ten-block radius you’ll encounter the legendary music label Sub Pop, dine at James Beard award-winning restaurants, visit the original Starbucks or the new Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room, and shop in an entirely new and disruptive way at an Amazon Go store or go the traditional route at Pike Place Market.

The Sheraton offers valet parking for hotel guests. The fee is $57 per day. Note to Attendees on Attrition: ASDSO is financially liable for all contracted rooms at the Sheraton Seattle, whether they are all sold or not. This is why we respectfully ask attendees to take advantage of the discounted rate and book rooms within the meeting block if possible. Further, rooms that are booked within the block and then canceled after the cutoff date cannot be re-booked by ASDSO attendees. In order to reduce the amount of attrition fees charged to ASDSO, please only book the room nights that you expect to occupy during the conference week. We work diligently to give you the best overall experience at the national conference and ask for your continued support.

Housing Scam Alert There are companies who try to scam conference attendees with fraudulent hotel bookings. If you are contacted by a company claiming to be the official housing service for the Dam Safety 2018 conference, please do not do business with them. These companies are not affiliated with ASDSO or the Dam Safety 2018 Conference. ASDSO does not have an official travel agent; nor does it utilize a guestroom housing service. The only way to reserve a hotel room at the ASDSO group rate is for YOU to initiate contact with the Sheraton Seattle by phone or on-line.

Transportation Overnight Accommodations Located directly across the street from the Washington State Convention Center, the newly renovated Sheraton Seattle Hotel is within walking distance or a short monorail ride to all of downtown Seattle’s most popular restaurants and attractions.

Serviced by more than two dozen domestic and international airlines, the Sea-Tac airport (SEA) is located about 16 miles from downtown Seattle. The Sheraton does not provide shuttle service. Recommended ground transportation options include taxi cabs, transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber or Lyft, or the Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail (approx. $3 each way).

The AAA Four Diamond Sheraton is offering Dam Safety 2018 conference attendees guest rooms at the conference rate of $217 plus tax per night, single or double occupancy. The Sheraton Seattle is a 100% non-smoking facility. Hotel guests will enjoy the high-tech fitness center with 35th floor views of the city, a 40’ lap pool, and 24 hour business center. The Sheraton also features two award-winning restaurants, a lobby bar, a wine bar, and a coffee shop. High-speed internet access in your guest room is complimentary for all SPG members. To make your reservation, please visit DamSafety. org/DS18Sheraton. Reservation requests made after the August 15 cut-off will not be eligible for the discounted ASDSO group rate. The conference rate of $217 plus tax per night is less than the FY18 federal government per diem allowance for the city of Seattle. Dam Safety 2018 • Seattle, WA

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Sunday, September 9 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Registration Open

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch On Your Own/Dine-Around 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Reception in the Exhibit Hall

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Regional Caucus Meetings

Wednesday, September 12

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Annual Business Meeting for State Officials

7:30 am – 5:00 pm Registration Open

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Kick-off Event at the Space Needle (Registration Required)

7:30 am – 3:30 pm Exhibits, Resource Center and Poster Forum Open

Monday, September 10

8:30 am – 5:00 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions

7:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration Open

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch in the Exhibit Hall (Meal provided)

7:00 am – 2:00 pm Exhibit and Poster Forum Setup

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Exhibitor Move-Out

8:30 am – 9:30 am Opening General Session

Thursday, September 13

10:00 am – 11:30 am Concurrent Technical Sessions 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Annual ASDSO Award Luncheon (Meal provided) 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Exhibit Hall Opening and Poster/Lightning Talks 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Tuesday, September 11

8:00 am – 8:30 am Check-in for Workshop Participants 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Specialty Technical Workshop: On-Site Response Guidance for Seepage and Internal Erosion Incidents 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Specialty Technical Workshop: Dam Break Flood Modeling/ Mapping Using DSS-WISE Lite 8:00 am – 4:15 pm Field Trip to Mud Mountain Dam 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Field Trip to Masonry Dam and Cedar River Watershed

7:30 am – 6:00 pm Registration Open 7:30 am – 6:30 pm Exhibits, Resource Center and Poster Forum Open 8:00 am – 3:30 pm Guest Tour: Whale Watching 8:30 am – 10:00 am General Session 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions DamSafety.org/DS18

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TECHNICAL SESSION TOPICS Dam Safety Program and Regulatory Sessions:

Geotechnical & Structural Sessions:

• Communications (Communicating with Non-Engineers)

• Levees and Slope Stability

• Non-Breach Flows

• Post Tensioning

• Applying Practical Knowledge/Lessons Learned

• Geologic Issues

• Risk

• Seepage

• Decade Dam Failures Part 1

• Seepage with Grouting

• Get Out!

• Spillway Rehabs

• Public Safety & Outreach

• Internal Erosion

• Levees

• Monitoring & Inspection

• Monitoring & Inspection

• Cracking & Blasting

• Soapbox Session: Toward Industry-Wide Use of Best

• Zoned Embankments & Deformation

Technical Practices • Decade Dam Failures Part 2

• Concrete Arch Dams • Seismic Issues

• Regulatory Guidance • Big Data • National Levee Program Update • Spillway Condition Assessment

Hydrology & Hydraulics Sessions: • Non-Breach Flows • Hydrology • Spillway Rehabs

Browse conference sessions and presentations based on topics and keywords on the NEW Dam Safety 2018 Itinerary Planner at DamSafety.org/DS18. Learn more about the Itinerary Planner on pg 17.

• Internal Erosion • PMP • Spillway Assessment • Levees • Hydrologic Modeling • Risk and Hydrology • Regulatory Guidance • Hydraulic Modeling • Breach Modeling • Spillway Condition Assessment

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GENERAL SESSIONS Monday, September 11 8:30 am - 9:30 am Welcome and ASDSO Annual Report Jonathon Garton, P.E., ASDSO President Oroville Incident: What was (Not) Learned from St. Francis Dam Failure. St. Francis Dam, owned by the City of Los Angeles, was a 205-foot tall concrete arched gravity dam. On March 12, 1928 just before midnight, the dam failed catastrophically. The resulting flood wave rampaged for over 5 hours as it traveled 54 miles downstream from the dam to the Pacific Ocean. It destroyed thousands of acres of farmland, ripped apart more than a thousand structures, and cut short more than 400 lives. Now, 90 years later, very few who witnessed

design and construction; and dismissal of warning signs, which included excessive concrete cracking, seepage through the abutments and foundation, and ground movement at the east abutment. The recent spillway failure incident at Oroville Dam suggests that some of the lessons from the St. Francis Dam failure had not been adequately understood even decades after the failure. Common factors include, misunderstanding of the site geology, lack of humility of individuals involved design and construction, insufficient review of designs, missing warning signs, and insufficient dissemination of state-of-practice technical knowledge within the dam engineering profession. In both cases, the problem was not lack of sufficient knowledge collectively within the industry, but rather insufficient awareness and application of that knowledge; this “root cause” remains to be remedied in the dam engineering profession.

Tuesday, September 12 8:30 am - 10:00 am Discussion of Lessons to be Learned from the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway Incident

the flood remain alive, but review of first-hand accounts collected over the years reminds us of how truly horrific it was. The design and construction were supervised by the famous William Mulholland, a man credited with quenching Los Angeles’ thirst for water as the city rapidly grew. Many considered this self-taught man from Ireland one of the greatest civil engineers of the time. So how could this dam fail so catastrophically, just 12 hours after Mulholland himself had inspected it and deemed it to be safe? Numerous physical factors contributed to the failure including: instability and slaking, susceptibility of the dam foundations and abutments, insufficient base width, raising the height of the dam twice during construction, and lack of provisions to account for uplift pressures. But the mechanics of how the dam failed are only part of the story. “Human factors” which interacted with the physical factors included inadequate geologic exploration and understanding; overconfidence in Mulholland’s expertise, inadequate experience of Mulholland’s design team; lack of Professional Engineer registration requirements in California; excessive cost and schedule pressures; an exemption in California state law which resulted in lack of outside review of the DamSafety.org/DS18

The report of the independent forensic investigation of the Oroville Dam spillway incident of February 2017 included several lessons to be learned for the dam safety industry. This soap box session will include a discussion of several of those lessons. The session will be moderated by John France, the team leader for the forensic investigation, and will feature a panel of key figures with first-hand knowledge of the Oroville Dam incident, as well as dam safety regulators and dam owners from other parts of the U.S. The format of this interactive discussion will focus on specific lessons identified by the forensic team, additional viewpoints from the panel, and questions from the audience.

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KICK-OFF EVENT When: Sunday, September 9, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Where: Seattle Space Needle Join fellow conference attendees for a private reception on the Skyline level of this national landmark. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails and take in the panoramic views of mountain ranges covered in Douglas Firs, Elliott Bay’s bustling waterfront, and the lights of downtown Seattle. Visit the newly renovated Observation Deck with floor-toceiling glass and an unparalleled 360-degree view of the Puget Sound. Transportation: Guests are encouraged to ride the Seattle Monorail from the Westlake Center Mall Station (5th and Pine) just 1.5 blocks from the Sheraton or the Washington State Convention Center, to the Seattle Center Station, located adjacent to the Space Needle. The monorail departs approximately every 10 minutes, and the round-trip fare is $5.00 per person Registration Information: $95 per person includes reception-style buffet, beverages, and admission to the Space Needle and its new Observation Deck.

Space Needle Fun Facts: • 1962: The year the Space Needle opened for the Seattle World’s Fair. • 4.5 million: The number of dollars it cost to build the Space Needle. • 400: Approximate number of days it took to build the Space Needle, which was dubbed the “400-day wonder.” • 5,600: The number of tons of concrete poured into the Space Needle’s foundation. At the time it was the largest continuous pour of concrete west of the Mississippi. • 74,000: The number of bolts holding the tower together. •$75,000: The cost of the land for the Space Needle’s original investors in 1961. • 848: The number of stairs from the tower’s basement to the Observation Deck. • 42: The number of seconds it takes to go from the ground to the tower’s tophouse. Source: https://www.spaceneedle.com/facts

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www.bauerpileco.com info@bauerpileco.com

680 Conroe Park W Drive, Conroe, TX 77303 (713) 691-3000 www.facebook.com/bauerpileco www.youtube.com/PilecoTX


SPECIALTY WORKSHOPS On-Site Response Guidance for Seepage and Internal Erosion Incidents

Dam-Break Flood Modeling/Mapping Using DSSWISE Lite

When: Thursday, Sept. 13, 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. Coffee and registration/check-in from 8:00 am – 8:30 am.

When: Thursday, September 13 - 8:30 am - 5:30 pm. Coffee and registration/check-in from 8:00 am – 8:30 am.

Responding to uncontrolled seepage that has initiated internal erosion of an embankment or foundation can be especially challenging. The conditions leading to mechanisms of seepage and internal erosion of earthen dams are reasonably well understood by experts who specialize in these topics. Ongoing research and experience with actual dam incidents are further increasing and refining that understanding. However, a missing link appears to be how to translate that knowledge into specific guidance for real-world emergency response during an uncontrolled seepage and internal erosion event.

DSS-WISE™ Lite is a web-based, automated two-dimensional dam and levee-break flood modeling and mapping capability developed at the National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering at, the University of Mississippi. The DSS-WISE™ Web platform provides access to a secure, web-based graphical user interface and a map server. DSS-WISE™ Lite is used by federal agencies and state dam safety offices for dam safety studies and preparing emergency action plans. Because if its exceptional speed, it has also been used for operational modeling and emergency response planning efforts.

This one-half day workshop has two main objectives: 1) provide concise, step-by-step guidance for key technical elements of response to the seepage/internal erosion event; and 2) practice implementing this guidance by conducting team table-top response exercises.

This one-day short-course will cover: • the system components for DSS-WISE™ Web and GUI; • dam-break flood hydraulics and the computational engine; • how to set up and run “reservoir-type” and “hydrographtype” simulations; • how to view and use the results files provided; • population databases and explains estimation of consequences of flood on populations; • automated input data preparation; and • typical user mistakes and how to avoid them.

The workshop will address: • selecting practical, potentially available materials for rapid construction of filters and drains, including aggregates and geosynthetic materials applicable to the range of flow rates encountered; • typical designs of practical filters and drains, including zoning/layering and their dimensions; and • practical, proven methods of construction under conditions of active seepage flow. Additional details on the workshop agenda, instructors and handouts is available at DamSafety.org/DS18On-Site. Professional Development Hours: Up to 3.5 professional development hours are available for attending the full workshop. Attendees will receive a form on which to record contact hours for continuing education credits. Registration Information: $200 per person includes all course materials as well as beverage breaks.

This short course is designed for practicing engineers and emergency managers, federal and state agencies, and consulting companies with an interest in dam safety and dam-break flood modeling. It does not require any prior experience in numerical modeling, but a general understanding of the concepts of dam safety would be helpful. Participants should bring their own laptop to use in the group exercise session. The laptop should be Wi-Fi enabled and have a web browser (other than Internet Explorer). Participants should also have a GIS software (such as ArcGIS or QGIS) and a spreadsheet software (such as Microsoft Excel) installed on their laptop. Additional details on the workshop agenda, software recommendations, instructors and handouts is available at DamSafety.org/DS18DSSWISE. Professional Development Hours: Up to 8 professional development hours are available for attending the full workshop. Attendees will receive a form on which to record contact hours for continuing education credits. Registration Information: $300 per person includes all course materials as well as beverage breaks.

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FIELD TRIPS Mud Mountain Dam

Masonry Dam and Cedar River Watershed

When: Thursday, September 13, 8:00 am – 4:15 pm

When: Thursday, September 13, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Mud Mountain Dam is a critical flood risk management project of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District. Completed in 1948, after the establishment of the 1936 Flood Risk Management Act, it is a 432 foot tall earth embankment dam in a narrow canyon on the White River on the boundary between King and Pierce Counties in Washington State.

The Cedar River Watershed and Masonry Dam are located 35 miles southeast of Seattle. The 90,638-acre watershed supports a diverse ecosystem and provides about 70% of the drinking water to 1.4 million people in the greater Seattle area. From the Cedar River Watershed, melting snow and rain drain to the Chester Morse Lake and the Masonry Pool reservoirs created by the Masonry Dam. Listed in order from upstream to downstream, the project facilities consist of an RCC dam (Overflow Dike), a 210 foot high cyclopean concrete gravity dam (Masonry Dam), and a power tunnel and penstocks for transport of water to the powerhouse located approximately 2 river miles downstream of the Masonry Dam. The RCC dam, (overflow dike) splits the reservoir at lower water elevations between Chester Morse Lake and the Masonry Pool. This dam helps minimize water losses from the Masonry Pool due to seepage through the glacial moraine forming the right abutment during times when water storage is more important.

The embankment itself is a rock-fill dam with a concrete cutoff wall in an earth core with a crest elevation of 1,257 feet. The width at the base of the embankment is 1600 feet which tapers off to 25 feet at the crest. The 1,200 long spillway has a capacity of moving 245,000 cubic feet of water per second and is designed as an uncontrolled chute to protect the dam in the event a flood risks overtopping the embankment. The intake and tunnel structures include a 9-foot sediment bypass tunnel and 23-foot fish and flood flow passage tunnel. The tunnels are design to pass normal river flows through the project (averaging 1,429 cubic feet per second) to include any sediment bed load and downstream fish passage as juvenile fish migrate to the Puget Sound.

Registration Information: $95 per person includes motorcoach transportation, guided facility tours, box lunch and beverages.

While only used for flood management, the project reservoir area stretches 5.5 miles upstream of the dam and is capable of storing 106,000 acre-feet or 34.5 billion gallons of water. The project provides essential flood risk management to many commercial, and residential neighborhoods throughout the southern Puget Sound region, as well as critical industries such as lumber and wood processing, aircraft production, tech industry (including critical Amazon server farms), heavy warehousing, agriculture, and port facilities in Tacoma. The total population protected by the dam is approximately 278,000 and includes the cities of Buckley, Enumclaw, Sumner, Puyallup, and Tacoma. The project also includes year-round day-use recreational facilities to include play structures, picnic shelters, two viewing decks, the only wading pool in the USACE inventory, and miles of trails throughout the land surrounding the reservoir. Registration Information: $95 per person includes motorcoach transportation, guided facility tours, box lunch and beverages.

See itineraries and learn more about the Dam Safety 2018 Field Trips at DamSafety.org/DS18FieldTrips.

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GUEST INFORMATION Guest Registration

Guest Tour: Seattle Whale Watching Experience

Guest Registration ($125 per person) allows spouses/ partners, family members and other non-business guests to attend the continental breakfasts, both evening receptions in the exhibit hall, the Awards Luncheon on Monday, September 10, and lunch with the exhibitors on Wednesday, September 12.

When: Tuesday, September 11, 8:00 am – 3:30 pm Enjoy the experience of a lifetime with Seattle’s only halfday, guaranteed whale watching tour. See orcas, humpback whales, and all the majestic wildlife in the San Juan Islands. Guests will depart from the Washington State Convention Center at 8 am and head to the Edmonds Marina where they will board the Puget Sound Express tour boat and set out on a 4-5 hour tour. This extraordinary tour features spacious, comfortable indoor seating and large windows, restrooms, outside viewing decks, and a great galley/cafe. Outside, it’s a menagerie of whales, porpoises, dolphins, seals, sea lions, otters, shorebirds and many other species of marine life, something different every trip. Registration information: $150 per person includes transportation to and from the pier, guided tour on the Puget Sound Express, and a box lunch. In addition, all registered guests are guaranteed to see whales or they will get a return voucher for a future Puget Sound Express tour.

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AWARDS LUNCHEON Annual ASDSO Awards Presentation When: Monday, September 10 : 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm ASDSO annually honors those individuals and organizations making exemplary contributions to the improvement of dam safety in the U.S. These awards will be presented at the ASDSO Awards Luncheon on Monday, September 10. All registered conference attendees are welcome. Any or all of the following may be on this year’s awards program: National Rehabilitation Project of the Year: This award recognizes the developer of a unique remedial design that advances the state-of-the-art in the field of dam safety and exemplifies the high professional engineering standards that dam safety requires. National Award of Merit: Chosen by the ASDSO Board of Directors, this award honors an individual or organization contributing to dam safety on a national level.

Student Awards: These include the Student Paper Competition winners and the recipient(s) of the Senior Undergraduate Scholarship. Honorary Membership: Selected by the ASDSO Board of Directors, this award honors an individual for lifetime contributions to the organization. Bruce A. Tschantz Public Safety at Dams Award: Awarded by ASDSO’s Public Safety Around Dams Committee, this award is given to a person who takes on the role of ‘local champion’ and works to improve safety at dams. NEW - Young Professional of the Year Award: Awarded by ASDSO’s Young Professional Advisory Committee, the award is given to a young professional for outstanding contributions to the field of dam safety and ASDSO.

Regional Awards of Merit: Awarded to individuals, companies, municipalities, or other entities that have made outstanding contributions to dam safety on a regional level.

NEW - Media Award: Awarded by ASDSO’s Media Outreach Committee, this award recognizes the contributions made by media outlets and journalists who made an influence on dam safety.

Joseph Ellam President’s Award: The ASDSO president gives special recognition to someone, either for contributions to the advancement of dam safety or for specific assistance to the president over his/her term of office. Terry L. Hampton Medal: Awarded by ASDSO’s Advisory Committee, the Hampton Medal is given to an individual for outstanding contributions to research and/or practice in hydrologic and hydraulic engineering for dams. Danny McCook Medal: Awarded by ASDSO’s Advisory Committee, the McCook Medal is given to an individual for outstanding contributions to research and/or practice in geotechnical engineering for dams.

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EXHIBITORS as of May 7 • ACF Environmental Inc.

• Global Diving & Salvage Inc.

• Shannon & Wilson Inc.

• AECOM

• Golder Associates

• Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.

• ASI Construction LLC

• Gomez and Sullivan, DPC

• Tetra Tech

• ASI Marine, LP

• Great Lakes Environmental &

• The International Journal on

• Axter Coletanche Inc.

Infrastructure

Hydropower & Dams

• Ayres Associates

• Griffin Dewatering

• The Reinforced Earth Company

• Ballard Marine Construction

• GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.

• Traylor SRG LLC

• Barnard Construction Company, Inc.

• Hayward Baker - Bencor

• TREVIICOS Corporation

• Barr Engineering Company

• HDR Engineering, Inc.

• Underwater Acoustics International

• BAUER-Pileco Inc.

• Holt Services Inc

• US Army Corps of Engineers

• BDI: Bridge Diagnostics, Inc.

• Hydrogeophysics Inc.

• US Department of Homeland Security

• Bureau of Reclamation

• Hydronia, LLC

• USDA - NRCS

• Campbell Scientific, Inc.

• Hydroplus Inc.

• USEngineering Solutions Corp.

• Canary Systems, Inc.

• Imdex Limited

• Vertical Access LLC

• Carl Data Solutions

• International Association of Emergency • W.W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc.

• CARPI USA Inc.

Managers

• Watershed Geosynthetics, LLC

• Cascade Drilling L.P.

• J.F. Brennan Company, Inc.

• Willowstick Technologies

• CDM Smith

• JAFEC USA

• Wood

• Center Rock, Inc.

• Kleinschmidt Associates

• Worldsensing

• CH2M

• McMillan Jacobs Associates

• Worthington Products Inc.

• ConeTec, Inc.

• Measurand Inc.

• Contech Engineered Solutions LLC

• Michael Baker International

• Contour Sierra Aebi

• Moretrench

• Crane Materials International - CMI

• Morgan Corp.

• Crofton Diving Corporation

• Nicholson Construction Company

• Crux Subsurface, Inc.

• Obermeyer Hydro, Inc.

• DeWind One-Pass Trenching, LLC

• OBG

• Dyrhoff, Inc.

• Olson Engineering

• Emagineered Solutions, Inc.

• OneRain, Inc

• Exponent

• Pacific Netting Products

• Federal Emergency Management

• PennWell’s Hydro Group

Agency

• Phillips & Jordan, Inc.

• Flow-3D

• Propex GeoSolutions

• Gannett Fleming, Inc.

• QSP Packers, LLC

• GCP Applied Technologies / De Neef

• Rite Geosystems

• GEI Consultants, Inc.

• Rizzo Associates

• GeoEngineers, Inc.

• Roctest

• Geokon, Inc.

• RST Instruments

• GEO-SLOPE International Ltd.

• Ruen Drilling

• Geo-Solutions Inc.

• Sage Engineers

• Geosyntec Consultants

• Schnabel Engineering

• Geotechnics, Inc.

• sensemetrics

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Exhibit & Sponsorship Opportunities are still available! Visit DamSafety.org or contact Ross Brown at rbrown@damsafety.org to learn more.

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SPONSORS as of May 7

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SOAPBOX SESSION Wednesday, September 12 Toward Industry-Wide Use of Best Technical Practices Overview: It is foundational to the sound practice of engineering that practitioners use the best available technical guidance.

Representatives from the following industry sectors will provide perspectives on this issue: • State dam safety regulator • Consulting firms • Private dam owner • Federal dam owner/regulator The second part of the session is to ask the audience questions about potential solutions. The remaining time will be spent examining strategies for implementation of these solutions. Session Facilitator: Mark E. Baker, P.E., Dam & Levee Safety Officer, National Park Service

Yahoola Creek Dam, Dahlonega, GA

Research shows that best practices available at the time were not used in the design of many dams that later experienced major incidents and failures (examples: Anita, Teton, Fontenelle, Big Bay, Silver Lake, and Oroville). The recent Oroville Forensic Investigation Report states: “[An] issue specific to the dam engineering and safety industry is that the available technical literature is not organized as a set of unified and integrated national guidelines which are regularly updated. Instead, the technical literature in the United States related to dams, while very extensive, is scattered across several federal agencies, most of the states, and professional organizations such as ASDSO and USSD. Engineers assigned to address the safety of dams and their appurtenances must not only be familiar with these dam safety organizations, but must also keep up with the current state of practice in dam engineering. This can be a significant task for an engineer who is only occasionally assigned to work on dams and spillways.”

Industry-wide use of best practices also has the potential to highlight needed research, reduce problems in construction, and decrease the need for later dam modifications. Many other industries have developed common technical guidelines/standards, including the bridge and transportation industry. This soapbox is to ascertain the extent of this problem and to explore how we can increase the use of best technical practices throughout our dam safety community. After an introduction, we will share results of a survey on the issue.

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Emergency Action Plans / Planning and Permitting / Construction and Contractor Support Services Get in touch: dams-levees@schnabel-eng.com

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ITINERARY PLANNER Pre-Plan Your Dam Safety 2018 Experience ASDSO Provides A New Tool To Assist Attendees in Planning Their Schedule For the first time, Dam Safety 2018 attendees will be able to plan their week using the ASDSO Itinerary Planner. The Itinerary Planner will allow attendees to browse all sessions and presentations and select their agenda ahead of time. In addition, attendees may download their agenda and save it to their calendar.

Once you have accessed the Itinerary planner, all search options are shown in the upper left hand corner of the page. Details on each session may be viewed by clicking the Presentation Title, then sessions of interest may be saved by checking the box to the left hand side of the sessions. After you have selected the sessions of interest to you, simply click on the “My Itinerary” button on the left hand side of the page. After selecting My Itinerary at the bottom of the results page you will find the option to print or export your itinerary.

To access the Itinerary Planner, visit DamSafety.org/DS18 and click on Itinerary Planner in the upper right hand corner under “In This Section.” The first time you access the Itinerary Planner, you will need to create a user log in so the system can store your agenda preferences. Please keep in mind the Itinerary Planner is just for planning purposes.

All search options are shown in the upper left hand corner of the page.

To view all selected sessions, click on “My Itinerary.” All selected sessions will be saved so you may review them the next time you log in.

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POSTERS & LIGHTNING TALKS Critical Infrastructure and Flood Risk Management Innovation for Dam Safety Monitoring Glen Alexander, Dam Safety and Floodplain Compliance Supervisor, Kentucky Division of Water; Katherine Osborne, Project Manager, Stantec 20th Anniversary of the Archusa Dam Failure Johnathon Atkins, E.I.T, MS Department of Environmental Quality Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment for Risk Analysis of a Rockfill Dam Bruce Barker, Principal, MGS Engineering Consultants, Inc.; Matthew Muto, and John Dong, Southern California Edison; Jason Caldwell, and Katie Ward, MetStat, Inc., Nicole Novembre, Brava Engineering Electric Lake Dam – Physical Modeling of the Morning Glory Spillway and Outlet Works Kirsten Blezy, P.Eng, Hydraulic Engineer, and Brian Hughes, P.Eng., Principal, Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd.; Roger Raeburn, P.E., Chief Dam Safety Engineer, PacifiCorp Eastvale Dam Emergency Repair: A Collaborative Approach Jared Deible, Technical Manager, Pete Logsdon, Civil Engineer, and Scott Zang, Technical Expert - Geotechnical, Michael Baker International; Jonathan Conville, Acting Chief of Dam Safety, PA Department of Environmental Protection Use of Fragility Analyses on Dams for use in Informing Design Michael Boone, Geotechnical Engineer, Black & Veatch; Alidad Hashemi, Structural Engineer, Bechtel Corporation Lessons Learned from Over 53 NRCS Dam Breach Analyses Using HEC-RAS 2D Sunit Deo, Senior Water Resources Engineer, and Kelley Rich, Water Resources Engineer, HDR

The use of 2D High-Resolution Dam Break Flood Maps on the Implementation of Emergency Action Plans Reinaldo Garcia, Director of Model Development and Applications, Hydronia LLC; Pully Torres, and Rafael Rosa, Torres-Rosa Consulting Engineers Inexpensive Model Dam Building Provides a Wealth of Firsthand Experience Megan G. Garrett, P.G., Dam Safety Program Manager, and Thomas Child, P.E., Civil Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District A Review of the Historical Design of Concrete Dams Holding the Middle Third Kevin Griebenow, Civil Engineer, FERC Trunnion Transition Plate Modeling Techniques and the Resulting Strut Behavior in Radial Gate Finite Element Analyses Kevin Gerst, and Christopher Buller, Peterson Brustad Inc.; Roger Raeburn, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, PacifiCorp Assessment of Potential Tree Root Impacts on the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway Incident Leslie F. Harder, Senior Professional Associate, HDR Engineering Geotechnical Applications of Unmanned Aerial System Surveys for Inspection and Investigation Michael Hughes, Senior Project Manager, and Tim Saffold, Executive Vice President, AECOM Application of the Liquefied Strength Ratio with Stress Densification to Lower San Fernando Dam Sean A. Hayter, Graduate Research Assistant of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Timothy D. Stark, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Labyrinth Weir Foundation Design on Highly Expansive Soil Shawn Hutcherson, Geotechnical Engineer, Marc T. Miller, and Dustin Mortensen, Freese and Nichols, Inc.

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POSTERS & LIGHTNING TALKS Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) Disaster Recovery Program Kevin Kiniry, Engineer, and Rolando Ayala, Engineer, Freese and Nichols, Inc.; Alan Black, Director of Engineering Division, and Jason Brock, Director of Maintenance Engineering, Harris County Flood Control District; Chris Fenner, Vice President, Stuart Consulting Group, Inc. Evaluating Erodibility, Mitigating Leakage, and Addressing Potential Failure Modes at a Concrete Arch Dam through Groundwater Modeling Todd Kincaid, Ph.D., President, GeoHydros, LLC; Robert Romocki, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Puget Sound Energy; Brent Meyer, Hydrogeologist, EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., PBC; George Annandale, Dr.-Ing, P.E., Consultant, George W. Annandale, Inc.; Henry Falvey, Dr.Ing, President, Henry T. Falvey & Associates, Inc.; William Hultman, P.E., Vice President, Shannon & Wilson, Inc. Applying New Probabilistic Framework to Capture Extreme Uncertainty in Risk Management for Levee System Safety Azadeh Mostofi, Ph.D. Candidate, and Robert B. Gilbert, Professor, University of Texas at Austin Modernization of a Dam Safety Inspection and Instrumentation Program Benjamin Phillips, Dam Safety Civil Inspection Engineer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Opportunity to Restore Fish Passage at a Small Coastal Dam Matthew Prociv, P.E., Civil Engineer, HDR Inc.; Darrin Raines, City Administator, City of Cosmopolis New Case Studies with Texas’ New PMP Tool - Small and Large Dam Watersheds, Comparisons to HMR 51/52, and Dilemmas Kelley Rich, Water Resources Engineer, Cris Parker, Senior Water Resources Engineer, and Sunit Deo, Senior Water Resources Engineer, HDR Using Technology to Better Understand Seepage at the Laurel Bed Dam in Virginia Thomas Roberts, Regional Engineer - Dam Safety, VA Department of Conservation and Recreation; Don Sipher, Regional Vice President, Froehling & Robertson, Inc.; Ryan Blanchard, Vice President of Business Development, Keith Wall, Director of Business Development, and David Bierman, Staff Geophysicist, Willowstick Technologies

Uncertainty Analysis of Dam Breach Flooding Extents Using FEMA DSS-WISE Lite Hui-Ming (Max) Shih, Senior Water Resource Engineer, CDM Smith; Charles Thompson, Bureau Chief, and James D. Head, Dam Safety Engineer, NM Office of the State Engineer Dam Safety Bureau Zoned Earthen Embankment Dam Construction Techniques and Approaches Benjamin Toby Sisco, Project Engineer, EIT, Phillips & Jordan, Inc. Hard Rock vs. Heavy Metal – an Innovative Sediment Bypass Tunnel Armoring Solution Richard E Smith, Dam Safety Program Manager, and Ellen Engberg, Civil Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers; Terry Gilliland, Senior Project Manager, Garney Companies, Inc. Striking a Better Balance: Value Engineering of Native American Dams Throughout the U.S. Matthew Young, P.E., CFM, Safety of Dams Engineer, Flood Hydrology Coordinator, and Lee Mauney, P.E., CFM, Safety of Dams Engineer, Early Warning Systems Coordinator, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Dam Safety, Security, and Emergency Management; Allison Knaak, Ph.D., Technical Writer, Managed Business Solutions, LLC (Contractor to U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs) Earthen Levee Breach Analyses in South Florida Everglades Protective Areas Sheng Yue, Civil Engineer, IMC, US Army Corps of Engineers Scanning Sonar Applications for Dam Inspections and Bathymetric Surveys Tracy B Vermeyen, Hydraulic Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation The influence of the reservoir geometry input approach on the dam breach outflow hydrograph La Plata Dam Breach Analysis, Toa Alta, PR Pully A. Torres, Co-Founder, and Rafael Rosa, Co-Founder, Torres-Rosa Consulting Engineers, PSC

Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Gravelly Soil Using the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer Kyle M. Rollins, Professor, and Jashod Roy, Research Assistant, Brigham Young University; Michael Talbot, Project Engineer, US Bureau of Reclamation

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Increasing Capacity. Minimizing Cost. Indian Lake State Park Dam

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TECHNICAL AGENDA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Concurrent Session: 3 - Hydrologic Modeling

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Opening General Session

Risk-Based Forecasting to Support Operational Decision Making in the Eastern Sierras Nicole Novembre, President, Brava Engineering; Bruce Barker, Principal Engineer, MGS Engineering; Jason Caldwell, Principal Hydrometeorologist, Weather & Water, Inc.; Blake Allen, Meteorological Programmer, MetStat, Inc.; and Matthew Muto, Senior Dam Safety Engineer, and John Dong, Dam Safety Engineer, Southern California Edison

Welcome and ASDSO Annual Report Jonathon Garton, P.E., ASDSO President Oroville Incident: What was (Not) Learned from St. Francis Dam Failure Nathaniel Gee, P.E., Group Manager, Bureau of Reclamation; Irfan Alvi, President and Chief Engineer, Alvi Associates; and Johnathon Atkins, Engineer in Training, Dam Safety, MS Department of Environmental Quality 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Concurrent Session: 1 - Communications (Communicating with Non-Engineers) What was the Value of Flood Control during Last Week’s Storm? Use the New NRCS National Watershed Benefits Model Larry Caldwell, P.E., Watershed Specialist (Retired), Gary Utley, P.E., Hydraulic Engineer, and Jim Henley, GIS Specialist (Retired), USDA - NRCS An Improved Approach to Explaining Dam Breach Information to First Responders Benjamin Israel-Devadason, Senior Hydraulic and Hydrologic Engineer, and Paul Schweiger, Vice President, Gannett Fleming, Inc. Dam Ownership Risks and Burdens: Raising Public Awareness through Educating Real Estate Agents Emma Moradi, Staff Engineer, and Yohanes Sugeng, Engineering Manager, OK Water Resources Board Concurrent Session: 2 - Seepage First secant pile dam repair in Sweden Ingvar Ekström, Project Manager, Carl-Anders Andersson, Senior Dam Expert, and Magnus Ljunggren, Project Manager, Sweco Energuide Considerations for Embankment Toe Drain Design: An Inspection and Maintenance Perspective Brian Hart, Resource Group Supervisor, Grand Coulee Power Office, Mike Freeman, Civil Engineer, Provo Area Office, Ryan Proctor, Supervisor, Force Account, Provo Area Office, and Nathan Lowe, Civil Engineer, Great Plains Regional Office, Bureau of Reclamation; and Mark Pabst, Private Consultant Oroville Dam Vegetated Area Study Ryan Matthew Abernathy, Water Resources Engineer, CA Department of Water Resources; and Les F. Harder, Jr., Senior Professional Associate, HDR Engineering, Inc.

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SSPMP, RIDM, Climate Uncertainty, and U.S. Michael McMahon, Senior Hydro-meteorologist/Climate and Resiliency Lead, HDR Engineering Inc. Exploring the Use of Physically Based Distributed Parameter Hydrologic Models for Dam Safety Studies in Small Ungauged Basins Chandler S. Engel, Research Civil Engineer, Meghan C. Quinn, Research Geotechnical Engineer, Shaun R. Stanton, and Jeffery D. Ellis, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) NRCS-DamWatch, Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead Stephen Durgin, P.E., National Design Engineer, Noller Herbert, Director, and Larry Caldwell, P.E., Earth Team Volunteer (Retired), USDA - NRCS; and Joseph Scannell, President/CEO, USES Corp. Concurrent Session: 4 - Concrete Arch Dams Methods to Better Understand Seismic Behavior of Concrete Arch Dams Aimee Laura Corn, Civil/Structural Engineer, and Guy S. Lund, Principal Engineer, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; and Erin K. Gleason, Dam Safety Engineer, and Darren Brinker, Engineering Manager - Dam Safety, Denver Water In Situ Stress Measurements and Instrumentation Installation – Duke Energy Walters Dam, Waynesville, North Carolina Andy Shaffer, Associate & Field Services Manager, Leo J. Gilbride, P.E., P.Eng., Vice President and Principal, Erik Hemstad, Senior Engineer, and Benjamin Haveman, Rock Mechanics Technician, and Rex Goodrich, P.E., P.Eng, Senior Associate, Agapito Associates, Inc.; Clinton Forsha, P.E., PMP, Geotechnical Engineer, HDR Engineering, Inc.; and Brad Keaton, P.E., Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Waterproofing a Multiple Arch Dam in a Cold Mountainous Environment with PVC Geocomposite Membrane John Wilkes, P.E., President, and Bobby Blankinship, P.E., Engineer, Carpi USA, Inc.; and Bahram Safavi, Ph.D., P.E., Dam & Public Safety Manager, and Jennifer Fernandez, Senior Project Manager, Southern California Edison

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TECHNICAL AGENDA 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM 2018 ASDSO Awards Luncheon

Program, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Exhibit Show Opening & Lightning Talks

Digitizing field data collection and facilitating inspections – our experience Prabeen Joshi, Geotechnical Engineer, and Emma Hill, Engineering Geologist, Klohn Crippen Berger

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Concurrent Session: 5 - Seismic Issues Seismic Evaluation of Gatun Dam - Panama Canal Lelio Mejia, Geosyntec Consultants; Maximiliano De Puy and Antonio Abrego, Panama Canal Authority; and Erik Newman and Rajendram Arulnathan, AECOM A Centrifuge Study on the Liquefaction Potential of CoarseGrained Soil Mixtures Alexander Sturm, Ph.D. Student, Gregory Shepard, Graduate Student, Jason DeJong, Professor, and Dan Wilson, Associate Director of the Center for Geotechnical Modelling, University of California, Davis Cross-Valley Seismic Analysis of Spillway Piers using the Capacity Spectrum Approach John Werner, Civil/Structural Designer, and James Rutherford, Project Engineer, Hatch Associates Consultants Incorporated; John Stanton, Expert Consultant, University of Washington; Omri Olund, Project Engineer; and Osmar Penner, Project Engineer, BC Hydro

Concurrent Session: 7 - Breach Modeling A Comprehensive Approach to Inundation Analysis for the Baker River Hydroelectric Project Kevin J. Ruswick, P.E., CFM, Senior Associate, Alex Rutledge, P.G., P.E., Associate, Loring W. Crowley, Project Engineer, and Ali Tabrizi, Ph.D., Senior Staff Professional, Schnabel Engineering; and Joshua Gile, EIT, Senior Engineer Puget Sound Energy Cost Effective Evacuation Mapping: DSS-WISE Vs. HEC-RAS 2D; When to go the Extra Mile Chadrick Douglas Hill, Civil Engineering Specialist, Marc E . Pitman, P.E., Civil Engineering Specialist, and Mike Mahowald, Civil Engineering Specialist, MT Department of Natural Resources & Conservation Concepts for Probabilistic Dam Breach Modeling Christopher Goodell, Director of Applied Research, Kleinschmidt Associates

Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Levee Segments on Peat Foundation Soil Yi Tyan Tsai, Student, Scott Brandenberg, Professor, and Jonathan Stewart, Professor, University of California - Los Angeles; and Atsushi Mikami, Professor, Tokai University

Concurrent Session: 8 - National Levee Program Update

Concurrent Session: 6 - Big Data

Status of Inventory and Review Activities with Non-federal Levee Systems Jamie L. McVicker, P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers

One Hurricane After Another…. So, Are My Dams OK? – Rapid Assessment of Potential Dam Failures in Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria Jonathan Keeling, P.E., CFM, Senior Dam Safety Engineer, Stantec Consulting Services Inc. (part of STARR II); Edward Beadenkopf, Principal Project Director/Vice President, ATKINS (part of STARR II); Alan Springett, Senior Engineer, Risk Assessment Lead, James Demby, Jr., P.E., Senior Technical and Policy Advisor, National Dam Safety Program, and Shudipto Rahman, Civil Engineer, Risk Analysis Branch, Federal Emergency Management Agency The Power of GIS in the Regulation of Dams Dusty Myers, P.E., Chief, Dam Safety Division, and Josh Watts, GIS Analyst, MS Department of Environmental Quality The Big Year - 2,000 Dam Inspections Later! Stephen L. Whiteside, P.E., Vice President, Patterson X. Gambill, P.E., Danielle K. Neamtu, P.E., and John D. Boyer, P.E., CDM Smith; and John M. McCain, Manager, Dam Safety Dam Safety 2018 • Seattle, WA

What we know today about our nations levees: The Levee Portfolio Report Eric C. Halpin, P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers

The Challenges of Non-Program Levees Andrew J. Orlovsky, P.E., PA Department of Environmental Protection and Almur S. Whiting IV, P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers Risk Informed Decisions for Levees Richard J. Varuso, Ph.D., P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers Federal Levee Safety Guidelines Noah D. Vroman, P.E., and Michael K. Sharp, Ph.D., P.E., US Army Corps of Engineers 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Reception in the Exhibit Hall (including Lightning Talks)

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TECHNICAL AGENDA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM General Session Discussion of Lessons to be Learned from the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway Incident John W. France, Vice President, AECOM Speakers and panelists TBD 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Session: 9 - Spillway Condition Assessment Observations and Lessons Learned from FERC’s Spillway Inspection Initiative Douglas Johnson, Regional Engineer, Portland Office, Justin Nettle, Senior Engineer, and Eric Kennedy, Senior Engineer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Spillways: Assessing the Risks of Aging Infrastructure and Opportunities Katherine Maher, Senior Engineer, Cory Miyamoto, Senior Engineer, and David Gutierrez, Senior Geotechnical and Water Resources Engineer, GEI Consultants, Inc. Iron Gate Stilling Basin Rehabilitation Kelcy T. Adamec, Civil Engineer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Nathan Higa, Civil Engineer, and Roger L. Raeburn, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, PacifiCorp Concurrent Session: 10 - Levees and Slope Stability Use of Fat Clays in Design of Levees Ray E. Martin, Owner, REM, LLC; George Sills, Manager, George Sills Geotechnical Engineering Consultant, LLC; and David Williams, President, David T. Williams and Associates Deformation-based versus Limit Equilibrium Analyses to Assess the Effect of Repeated Rise and Fall of Water Level on the Stability of Princeville Levee Rowshon Jadid, Graduate Student, Brina Montoya, Assistant Professor, and Mo Gabr, Professor, North Carolina State University; and Victoria Bennett, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Third Presentation TBA Concurrent Session: 11 - Post Tensioning Installation and Verification Monitoring of High Capacity MultiStrand Tendons for Dam Anchoring Mark Sinclair, Manager Engineering & Technical, Traylor SRG LLC

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Post-Tensioned Anchor Load Distribution for Gated-Spillway Lift Joint Stabilization Matthew W. Drewek, Ph.D., P.E., Senior Structural Engineer, and William H. Walton, P.E., S.E., F.ASCE, D.GE, Vice President / Senior Practice Leader, GEI Consultants, Inc.; and David R. Tripp, P.E., Dam Safety Engineer / Generation Engineer, Upper Peninsula Power Company 3D Geologic Modeling and Probabilistic Stability Analyses Support a Rock Face Stabilization Project at Boundary Dam, Pend Oreille River, Washington State Robert Cannon, P.G., Senior Vice President, Frederic Snider, P.G., Associate, Alex Rutledge, P.G., P.E., Associate Scientist, and John Gagnon, P.G., Senior Staff Scientist, Schnabel Engineering; and Andre Ball, P.E., Dam Safety Engineer, and Kimberly Pate, P.G., P.E., Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Seattle City Light Concurrent Session: 12 - Don’t Just Sit There! Let’s Talk About Dam Security U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Embankment Vulnerability Studies Nathan Nakamoto, Bureau of Reclamation Research Update on Dams Sector Topics Yazmin Seda-Sanabria. U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model and Case Study Michelle Yezierski, Angelino Ferreira, and Kavita Mak, U.S. Department of Homeland Security 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch On Own and Dine Around 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Concurrent Session: 13 - Non-Breach Flows Dam-Induced Flooding: Scenarios, Consequences, and Difficult Choices for NRCS Dam Rehabilitation Projects Stephen Durgin, P.E., USDA - NRCS WinDAM, A Dam Safety Engineering Tool for Breach and NonBreach Flood Events Sherry L. Hunt, Research Leader and Research Civil Engineer (Hydr), Darrel M. Temple, Research Leader (Retired), and Ronald D. Tejral, Agricultural Engineer, USDA - ARS; Stephen Durgin, P.E., National Design Engineer, and Karl Visser, Civil Engineer (Hydr), USDA - NRCS; and Abdelfatah Ali, Postdoctoral Research Associate, ORISE/ORAU Innovation in Colorado: High Hazard Dam Release - Downstream Floodplain Impacts Database and Tools Amanda J. Hess, H&H Group Manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; and Bill McCormick, Chief, Dam Safety, and Kallie Bauer, Dam Safety Engineer, CO Division of Water Resources

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TECHNICAL AGENDA Concurrent Session: 14 - Geologic Issues Assessment of Rock Mass Failure Modes Related to Block 18/19 Movement, Upper Baker Dam, Puget Sound Energy Rex Whistler, Geological Engineer, Robert Clark, Senior Associate Civil Engineer, and Will Hultman, Vice President, Geological Engineer, Shannon & Wilson, Inc.; and Robert Romocki, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Puget Sound Energy Geologic and Geotechnical Considerations for Condition Assessments of Unlined Granitic Spillways in the Sierra Nevada, California Robert A. McManus, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, PG&E; and Drew Kennedy, Principal Geologist, SAGE Engineers, Inc. 3D Geological Modeling as a Tool for Evaluating Dam Foundations Cameron Bartsch, P.Geol, Structural Geologist, Terrane Geoscience Inc.; Robert Romocki, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Puget Sound Energy; Todd R. Kincaid, Ph.D., Hydrogeologist, GeoHydros; and William Hultman, P.E., Vice President, Shannon & Wilson Inc. Concurrent Session: 15 - Applying Practical Knowledge/ Lessons Learned Colorado’s Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation uncovers long history of dam safety concerns and prompts immediate action at Marshall Lake Dam Ryan Schoolmeesters, P.E., Dam Safety Engineer, and John Hunyadi, P.E., Dam Safety Engineer, CO Division of Water Resources Educating the Dam and Hydro Engineer of Tomorrow Mark W. Killgore, P.E., D.WRE, F.ASCE, Regional Dam Safety Engineer, VA Department of Conservation & Recreation, Dam Safety Division Practical Experience with Development and Implementation of Effective Construction Monitoring Plans Joseph Kudritz, P.E., Water Resource Engineer, Brian Afek, P.E., Project Manager, and Jacob Bench, E.I., Civil Associate, Michael Baker International; and Jeremy Wenner, P.E., Team Lead for ODNR Dam Projects, OH Department of Natural Resources Concurrent Session: 16 - Risk How Joining Asset and Dam Safety Risks Provides Greater Insight into Management Decisions - Assessment of Nine Dams on the Waikato River, New Zealand M. Jonathan Harris, National Practice Leader for Dam Safety and Risk, Schnabel Engineering; and Will Oxley, Strategic Asset Planner, Mercury

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Third Time’s the Charm: South Carolina’s Dam Safety Program’s experience with Hurricane Irma, the state’s third significant storm event in three years. Jill Stewart, P.E., Director, Dam Safety and Stormwater Permitting Division, John McCain, P.E., Manager, Dam Safety Section, and Shawn Frazer, Associate Engineer, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control Inches of Flood Risk Reduction, Miles of Community Benefits – Balancing Goals & Interests Through a String of Dam Removal Projects on the Pawcatuck River Nils S. Wiberg, P.E., CFM, Associate/Chief Water Resources Engineer, Fuss & O’Neill, Inc. 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Session: 17 - Decade Dam Failures Part 1 110th Anniversary of Hauser Dam Failure, Montana Stephen Durgin, P.E., National Design Engineer, USDA – NRCS A Review of the September 23, 1938 Fort Peck Dam Construction Slide Charles Redlinger, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, and Laila Berre, Dam Safety Program Manager, Northwest Division, US Army Corps of Engineers; and Keith Ferguson, VicePresident, HDR Engineering, Inc. Hold Back The Dam, Boys! -The Story of the Minnedosa Spillway Failure Jonathan Pittman, P.E., Senior Associate, Schnabel Engineering Concurrent Session: 18 - Get Out! Is It Time to Update Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety, FEMA 64 EAPs Robert Beduhn, Director, Dams, Levees and Civil Works, HDR Engineering Inc. The Human Element: Warning and Evacuation During the Oroville Dam Incident Gregory Richards, P.E., CFM, Project Engineer, and Jesse Pope, E.I.T., CFM, Hydraulic & Hydrologic Designer, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; and Jason T. Needham, Consequence Specialist, US Army Corps of Engineers Robustness and Extensibility for Resilience in the Oroville Dam Crisis of 2017 Lucien Hollins, Undergraduate Researcher, Daniel Eisenberg, Ph.D. Candidate, and Thomas Seager, Associate Professor, Arizona State University Concurrent Session: 19 - Hydrology My 23-year Perspective of PMP and Precipitation Frequency Estimates for Dam Safety Applications in the United States Tye W. Parzybok, President/CEO and Chief Meteorologist, MetStat, Inc. 24


TECHNICAL AGENDA Hydrologic Analysis Used to Update the Rainfall from the July 1942 “Smethport” Storm-Important Applications for Dam Safety and Design Bill Kappel, President/Chief Meteorologist, and Doug Hultstrand, Senior Hydrometerologist, Applied Weather Associates; and Joe Bellini and Peter Masopust, Aterra Solutions Uncertainty in Hydrologic Estimates Arthur C. Miller, Science Practice Leader, AECOM Concurrent Session: 20 - Seepage with Grouting A Dam Innovative Solution: Cutoff Walls and Pressure Grouting At Georgia’s Richland Creek Dam Brian D. Barkauskas, P.E., Business Development Director, Raphael Delhaye, Assistant Project Manager, and Eloy Ramos, P.E., Project Manager, Nicholson Construction Company; and H. Craig Robinson, P.E., Piedmont Geotechnical Consultants Grouting in Dams and Levees: The Fundamentals Dr. Donald A. Bruce, President, Geosystems, L.P. Mosul Dam – Dealing with Artesian conditions and Data Management Nagesh Malyala, Senior Project Manager, and Juan Vargas, Vice President, AECOM 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Reception in the Exhibit Hall

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Concurrent Session: 21 - Public Safety & Outreach Low Head Dams - Addressing Safety AT Dams Manuela Johnson, State of Indiana Silver Jackets Lead, Indiana Department of Homeland Security How Multiple Dam Table Top Exercises is a Win-Win Situation Natalie Rogers, P.E., CFM, Water Resources Engineer, and Marc Johnson, P.E., CFM, Principal Water Resources Engineer, FTN Associates Ltd. Implications of updating inundation mapping for use in Emergency Action Plans: Sutherlin Dams Edward George Robison, Senior Project Manager, and Nathan Cox, Hydraulic Engineer, McMillen Jacobs Associates; and Meghan Walter, State Hydraulic Engineer – Oregon, USDA NRCS

and Todd M. Rudolph, Water Resources Engineer, Ayres Associates Lake Delhi Dam Reconstruction – A Good Dam Story William Holman, Senior Project Manager, Stanley Consultants, Inc. Fine Tuning a Piano Key Weir Randall P. Bass, P.E., Principal, Schnabel Engineering LLC Concurrent Session: 23 - Internal Erosion Hyatt Dam – Challenges of Modifying a 96-Year-Old Embankment Dam to Address Internal Erosion Risk Elizabeth Ouellette, P.E., Geotechnical Engineer, Brandt Demars, P.E., Program Manager, and Tara Schenk McFarland, P.E., Program Manager, Bureau of Reclamation Martin Reservoir Failure Case History - Revisited Mark Pabst, Consultant; and John W. France, AECOM Embankment Breach Research: Observed Internal Erosion Processes Abdelfatah K. Ali, Post-doctoral Research Associate, ORISE/ ORAU; Sherry L. Hunt, Research Leader and Research Civil Engineer, Ronald D. Tejral, Agricultural Engineer, and Darrel M. Temple, Research Leader (Retired), USDA - ARS Concurrent Session: 24 - PMP Advancements in Storm Transposition Procedures for use in Probable Maximum Precipitation and Probable Maximum Flood Studies Alyssa Hendricks Dietrich, Senior Hydrometeorologist, Victoria Sankovich Bahls, Senior Hydrometeorologist, and Tye Parzybok, President/CEO, Chief Meteorologist, MetStat, Inc.; Christopher Goodell and Christopher Bahner, WEST Consultants, Inc.; and Roger Raeburn, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, PacifiCorp Temporal Distribution of Probable Maximum Precipitation Joseph Wilson, Civil Engineer, Dam and Reservoir Safety Program, MO Department of Natural Resources Updating PMP Analysis Through Collaboration - The ColoradoNew Mexico Regional Extreme Precipitation Analysis, Setting a New Standard of Practice Doug Hultstrand, Senior Hydrometeorologist, and Bill Kappel, President/Chief Meteorologist, Applied Weather Associates

Concurrent Session: 22 - Spillway Rehabs

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Concurrent Session: 25 - Spillway Assessment

The Floating Bulkhead: A Practical, Flexible, and Economical Approach to Dewatering Gates Christopher T. Goodwin, P.E., Water Resources Manager,

“You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know” - Inspecting Spillways and Assessing Potential Failure Modes Paul Schweiger, Vice President, Manager of Dams and

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TECHNICAL AGENDA Hydraulics Section, and Robert A. Kline, Vice President, Gannett Fleming, Inc. Application of a Systematic Integrated Framework for Spillway Inspection and Assessment Ali Reza Firoozfar, Hydraulic Engineer, Kenwarjit S. Dosanjh, Hydraulic Structures Section Manager, Keith C. Moen, Northwest Hydropower Engineering Manager, Edwin T. Zapel, Dam, Hydro, Civil Works, Hydraulic Design Lead, and William R. Fiedler, Dam Safety/Risk Senior Technical Advisor, HDR Engineering, Inc. Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway and Oroville Flood Control Outlet Spillway – How the Offspring Differs from the Parent Cecily M. Nolan, P.E., Civil / Structural Engineer, Ethan Thompson, P.E., Lead Hydraulic Engineer, Kenneth R. Pattermann, P.E., G.E., Geotechnical Engineer, and Michele K. Louie, P.E., Civil / Structural Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers; and Nathan C. Cox, P.E., Hydraulic Engineer, McMillen Jacobs Associates

Dam Drone Inspections – Low Cost, High Value Data The New Exchequer Dam Story George Meister, P.E., Senior Engineer/UAS Coordinator, and Chad Masching, P.E., Senior Engineer, GEI Consultants, Inc. Preserving Instrumentation at New Waddell Dam Aaron L. Ashcroft, Sr. Civil Engineer, Reliability Central Arizona Project Concurrent Session: 28 - Cracking & Blasting Designing Geotextiles to Span Open Cracks in Embankments Benjamin C. Doerge, Geotechnical Engineer, M & E Consultants/USDA - NRCS (Retired); and Karl V. Visser, Hydraulic Engineer, USDA - NRCS

Concurrent Session: 26 - Levees

Will My Filter Crack? Testing 1, 2, 3. Evaluation of the Suitability of Sand Material for Filters in Dams Daniel Frechette, Principal Geotechnical Engineer, Wood Environment & Infrastructure Solutions, Inc.; and Stephen Brown, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Flood Control District of Maricopa County - Dam Safety Branch

Zero to Thirty in Sixty Days - Critical Levee Repair Sites Rehabilitation Effort, Central Valley, California Richard Millet, P.E., G.E., Vice President, Water Resources, Rob Nixon, P.E., G.E., and Loren Murray, P.E., AECOM; Kent Zenobia, P.E., Supervising Engineer Specialist, Division of Flood Management, and David Wheeldon, P.E., Supervising Engineer, Division of Flood Management, CA Department of Water Resources

Criteria for Controlled Close Proximity Blasting at the Oroville Dam Spillways and Flood Control Structure John Lemke, President, Geodaq, Inc.; Mike Driller, Mark Schultz, Supervising Engineer, Division of Safety of Dams, and Amin Islam, Engineer, CA Department of Water Resources; Dan Wilson, Associate Director, Center for Geotechnical Modeling, University of California at Davis; and Gordon Revey, Revey Associates Inc.

Where’s the Risk? An Analysis of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Levee Risks Hollie Ellis, Senior Vice President, Shannon & Wilson, Inc.; Dustin Jones, Delta Stewardship Council; and Larry Roth, ARCADIS

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Concurrent Session: 29 - Soapbox Session: Toward IndustryWide Use of Best Technical Practices

Hurricane Harvey: analyzing and preventing floods inside a levee Phil Martin, Asst. General Manager, Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 2 Concurrent Session: 27 - Monitoring & Inspection Ground-Based Radar and Spaceborne SAR Measurement of 3D Deformation of Coyote Dam by Creep on the Central Calaveras Fault. Brett Baker, Engineering Geologist, Santa Clara Valley Water District; Dr. Charles Werner, Founder, Gamma Remote Sensing; Dr. Pietro Millilo, Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Ryan Cassotto, PostDoctoral Researcher, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences; Urs Wegmuller, President of Executive Board, Director, and Project Scientist, Gamma Remote Sensing Research and Consulting AG

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Toward Industry-Wide Use of Best Technical Practices Mark E. Baker, Dam & Levee Safety Officer, National Park Service Concurrent Session: 30 - Zoned Embankments & Deformation In Situ Soil Mix Shear Keys for Dam Improvement Nathan Coughenour, Project Engineer, Geo-Solutions, Inc. Use of FLAC Modeling and Other Factors for Assessing Operational Risk at Ritschard Dam Don Meyer, P.E., Senior Water Resources Engineer, and Ray Tenney, P.E., Deputy Chief Engineer, Colorado River Water Conservation District; and Tiffany Adams, Ph.D.., P.E., Geotechnical Engineer, AECOM Design of a High Hydraulic Asphalt Core Rockfill Dam for Colorado Donald Montgomery, Principal Engineer, and Brian Francis, Associate Civil Engineer, Stantec; and Joe Donnelly, Project 26


TECHNICAL AGENDA Manager - Water Resource Engineer, Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District

Rob Schryburt, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Concurrent Session: 31 - Risk and Hydrology

Introducing NRCS Design Guidance for Articulated Concrete Block Armored Spillways Jon Fripp, Stream Mechanics Civil Engineer, Karl Visser, Hydraulic Engineer, and Stephen Durgin, P.E., National Design Engineer, USDA - NRCS

Risk-Informed Hydrologic Design using Stochastic Models Joseph Wright, Supervisory Hydraulic Engineer, and Amanda Stone, Hydrologic Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Services Center Characterizing Hydrologic Uncertainty in Reservoir Pool Stage Frequency Curves for Use in the Risk Assessment of SystemOperated Dams in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon Angela M. Duren, Regional Technical Hydrologist, US Army Corps of Engineers Improving Watershed Precipitation Frequency Estimates for RiskInformed Decision-Making Debbie Martin, Senior Hydrometeorologist, Katie Ward, Senior Meteorologist, and Jason Caldwell, Chief Hydrometeorologist, MetStat, Inc.; and Mel Schaefer, MGS Engineering Consultants, Inc. 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Session: 32 - Decade Dam Failures Part 2 70th Anniversary of the Columbia River Dike Failure Stephen Durgin, P.E., National Design Engineer, USDA – NRCS The Mud Pond / Lake Lee Dam Failures – A Story of Mistakes in Two Centuries R. Lee Wooten, P.E., Principal, GEI Consultants, Inc.; William C. Salomaa, Director, Office of Dam Safety, Paul Marinelli, P.E., Dam Safety Engineer, Office of Dam Safety, and Edward M. Connor, Dam Safety Engineer, Office of Dam Safety, MA Department of Conservation and Recreation; and Alon Dominitz, P.E., Section Chief – Dam Safety, NY Department of Environmental Conservation 40th Anniversary of the Palagnedra Dam Failure Alon Dominitz, P.E., Chief, NY Department of Environmental Conservation; Johnathon Atkins, Dam Safety Division, MS Department of Environmental Quality; and Gregory L. Richards, Hydraulic & Hydrologic Engineer, Gannett Fleming, Inc. See What’s New at DamFailures.org! Gregory Richards, P.E., CFM, ASDSO DamFailures.org Subcommittee Chair, Gannett Fleming, Inc. Concurrent Session: 33 - Regulatory Guidance Environmental Consequence Classification of Mine Dam Failures: Updating the Canadian Classification System Lee Nikl, Principal/Senior Environmental Scientist, and Julia Steele, Golder Associates Ltd.; Lindsay Robertson, Klohn Crippen Berger; Scott Davidson, New Gold Inc.; and DamSafety.org/DS18

FEMA Public Assistance (PA) Disaster Funding for Dams Preston W. Wilson, Civil Engineer, and Lujuana Richardson, Section Chief, Federal Emergency Management Agency Concurrent Session: 34 - Hydraulic Modeling Physical Modeling of Air Demand at Cedar Cliff Dam Using 1:8 and 1:19 Scale Models Dan Gessler, Vice President, Andy Johansson, Director, Hydraulic Modeling, and Chris Miller, Engineer II, Alden Research Laboratory, Inc.; John Eddy, PMC Hydro Program Engineer, and Brad Keaton, Chief Dam Safety Engineer, Duke Energy; and Hasan Kocahan, Manager, Hydroplus Inc. What Happens when Spillway Gates Can’t be Opened Damian M. Gomez, Water Resources Engineer, and Kevin Miller, Civil/Water Resources Engineer, Gomez and Sullivan Engineers, DPC Quantification and Mitigation of Uplift on a Non-Ogee Shaped Spillway Crest: Numerical and Physical Hydraulic Modeling of Mathis Dam Joe Orlins, Director, Hydraulic Modeling and Consulting, Zach Taylor, and Dan Gessler, Vice President, Alden Research Laboratory, Inc.; and Todd Barber, Senior Engineer – SCG Hydro Services, Southern Company

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Specialty Technical Workshop On-Site Response Guidance for Seepage and Internal Erosion Incidents 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Specialty Technical Workshop Dam Break Floor Modeling/Mapping Using DSS-WISE Lite

Visit DamSafety.org/DS18 for the most up-to-date information.

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NETWORKING One of the most valuable experiences you can have at a conference is networking. While the conference schedule can make it hard to find time to meet new people, ASDSO has built in numerous opportunities for you to expand your professional network and meet new dam and levee safety professionals. Aside from the technical sessions, workshops, and field trips below are a few of the many opportunities provided by Dam Safety 2018.

Dine Around

Exhibit Hall

Young Professionals Networking Opportunities

The networking hub of the conference, the exhibit hall offers a plethora of opportunities to network with fellow attendees.

The newly formed ASDSO Young Professionals Interest Group will host a number of networking and social events as part of the Dam Safety 2018 conference. In addition, the Young Professional Interest Group will have its own tables as a part of the dine around and will hold an open meeting during the conference. Watch for more details on all events at DamSafety.org/YP or visit today and sign up for the YP email list.

The annual conference dine around will take place on Tuesday, September 11. Past attendees have told us that participating in the dine around is the perfect place to meet new people from across the country (and the world) and share experiences in a casual environment. Watch DamSafety.org/DS18 for more details.

Student Networking Opportunities

Receptions and Special Events Two evening receptions will be held in the exhibit hall, Monday, September 10 and Tuesday, September 11. Enjoy appetizers and network with over 100 exhibitors where you have the opportunity to learn about the latest, and greatest products and services available. In addition to the receptions, lunch is provided in the exhibit hall on Wednesday, September 12, and breakfast and breaks are held in the exhibit hall on Tuesday, September 11 and Wednesday, September 12.

Educational Outreach committee members will host informal info/Q&A sessions in the Resource Center during conference hours for class groups by appointment. All student participants and professors, whether attending individually or in a class group, are encouraged to participate. Learn about potential careers in dam safety from multiple perspectives, and from folks with first-hand knowledge. Professors: If you’d like to bring a group of students and are interested in scheduling an info session at a specific time, please contact Brittany Lewis at (859) 5502788 or blewis@damsafety.org. Students are also encouraged to explore the conference exhibit hall and network with organizational representatives in a casual and relaxed atmosphere. Be sure to bring copies of your resume!

Resource Center & Lounge Located in the center of the exhibit hall, the Resource Center & Lounge is the perfect place to relax, recharge your batteries (as well as your phone), and meet new people - or catch up with old friends. Plus, all door prize drawings will be held in the Resource Center. Kickoff Event at the Space Needle Start your conference off right by joining us for a private reception on the Skyline level of the world famous Seattle Space Needle. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails and visit the newly renovated Observation Deck with floor-to-ceiling glass and an unparalleled 360-degree view! Dam Safety 2018 • Seattle, WA

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CONFERENCE FAQS How do I register for the conference? Registering for Dam Safety 2018 is simple, and you can register in one of two convenient ways - on-line at DamSafety.org through the ASDSO Portal (credit card payments only), or complete the registration form on page 30 and email to info@damsafety.org, fax to 859-550-2795, or mail to ASDSO 239 S. Limestone, Lexington, KY, 40508.

Still have questions? Contact ASDSO at info@damsafety.org or visit DamSafety.org/DS18FAQ.

What do the conference fees Include?

What forms of payment are accepted?

All full conference registrations (member, non-member, and student) include admission to all technical sessions, the exhibit show, all catered events, and a digital copy of the conference proceedings. Guest and Exhibit Booth Staff registrations include admission to the exhibit show and all catered events. The Guest registration option is for use by a registered attendee’s spouse/partner or family member and is not intended for use by a co-worker or another industry professional. One-day registrations include admission to technical sessions, catered events and the exhibit show for that day.

ASDSO accepts checks, credit cards, and government agency purchase orders. A copy of the purchase order with billing instructions must accompany the registration form if payment is to be processed by government purchase order.

How soon should I make my hotel reservation? As soon as possible! Rooms at the Sheraton are being held for Dam Safety 2018 attendees and could sell out before the conference. Reservation requests made after the cut-off dates will not be eligible for the special ASDSO group rate. To make your reservations on-line, visit DamSafety.org/ DS18Sheraton to see the secure reservations web link for the Sheraton ($217/night). Can I wait until the conference to sign up for workshops or extra activities? There is a chance that the conference workshop and extra activities will fill before the start of the conference, so advance registration is important. Can I join ASDSO and save on my registration fee? Yes, if you are not currently an ASDSO member, save money and receive full ASDSO membership benefits for one year, by including your membership dues with your conference fee payments. To learn more about ASDSO membership categories please visit DamSafety.org/JoinASDSO. If you are unsure of your membership status, please call ASDSO at (859) 550-2788 or email info@damsafety.org. Does ASDSO offer early registration discounts?

What is the conference cancellation and refund policy? Please notify ASDSO as soon as possible if you must cancel your registration. Fees that have already been paid may either be refunded or transferred to another attendee. To receive a refund, notice of cancellation must be submitted to ASDSO by the end of business on August 31, 2018. All refunds are subject to a $75 processing fee, including workshops. After August 31, 2018 registration fees are not refundable. What meals are included with my registration? Full conference, guest and exhibit booth staff registrations include admission to continental breakfasts on Mon. 9/10, Tue. 9/11, and Wed. 9/12, and hosted lunches on Mon. 9/10 and Wed. 9/12. One-day registrations include admission to the catered events for that day. Workshop registrants (Thu. 9/13) receive beverage breaks on the day of the workshop. Field Trip registrants (Thu. 9/13) receive a box lunch on that day. What if I have a special need (ADA, dietary, or other)? Contact Susan Sorrell at (859) 550-2788 or sasorrell@damsafety.org to discuss arrangements. How do exhibitors & sponsors register? If you have signed up to be an exhibitor or sponsor, your company receives a full conference registration as part of its package. Registration discount codes will be sent to the company exhibit/sponsor contact. All exhibit and sponsor registrations may be completed at DamSafety.org through the ASDSO Portal or on the Dam Safety 2018 registration form (check prepaid exhibitor/sponsor box).

Yes. Early registration discounts apply to all registrations (regardless of Form of Payment) received by August 12, 2018. After August 12, a $100 late fee is charged for full conference registrations and $50 is charged for exhibit staff and one day registrations. DamSafety.org/DS18

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REGISTRATION FORM Please email the completed form to info@damsafety.org or fax to 859.550.2795. You will receive a registration confirmation via email. Convenient online registration is also available by logging into the ASDSO Portal at DamSafety.org. Please review the conference cancellation and privacy policy online at DamSafety.org. A cancellation fee of $100 will be applied to all refunds requested prior to August 31, 2018. No refunds will be given after August 31, 2018. 1. PARTICIPANT INFORMATION

3. ASDSO MEMBERSHIP

Name: First Name for Badge:

If you are not yet an ASDSO member, join now and receive the member registration rate!

Title: Date of Birth:

Associate (govt. employee) $55

/

/

Organization:

Affiliate (private sector)

Address:

• Company Member

$400

City: State: Zip:

• Company Employee

$55

Work Phone: Cell Phone:

• Individual Member

$100

Email:

Student

$24

2. FEES (Mark Appropriate fees and total) By Aug. 12

Senior

$42

After Aug. 12

Amount

Full Registration ASDSO Member: $885 $985 Non-Member $985 $1,085 Honorary Member $125 $125 Student (eligibility guidelines apply)

$0

$0

Single Day Rate ASDSO Member $485/day $535/day ¨ Monday (9/10)

¨ Tuesday (9/11)

¨ Wednesday (9/12)

Non-Member $585/day $635/day ¨ Monday (9/10)

¨ Tuesday (9/11)

¨ Wednesday (9/12)

Guest Registration $125

$250

$125

$300

Extra Activities

Fee

9/9

Sunday Night Kickoff Event: Space Needle

$95

9/11

Guest Tour: Seattle Whale Watching

$150

9/13

Workshop: On-site Response Guidance for Seepage & $200

Internal Erosion Incidents 9/13

4. DONATE TO ASDSO I would like to make a tax deductible contribution to ASDSO in the amount of $ . All donations go to help support the mission of ASDSO. ¨ General Donation ¨ Memorial Education Fund ¨ ¨

Guest Name: Guest Cell Phone: Pre-paid Sponsor or Exhibitor $0 $0 Exhibit Booth Staff (Exhibit show access only)

Membership Total $

Amount

Workshop: Dam-Break Flood Modeling/Mapping Using

Bruce Tschantz Public Safety at Dams Fund Capital Campaign

Donation Total $ *Deductible up to 94% of total 5. FORM OF PAYMENT Total Payment

$

¨ Check Enclosed ¨ Govt. Purchase Order Enclosed ¨ Credit Card: MC/Visa/AMEX/Discover Card Number:

DSS-WISE Lite

$300

9/13

Field Trip: Mud Mountain Dam

$95

¨ US Citizen

Print Name on Card:

9/13 Field Trip: Masonry Dam and Cedar River Watershed $95 *If you are attending a field trip please provide your cell phone number above

CVV:

¨ Foreign National

Fees Total $

Expiration Date:


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Make your plans now to be a part of Dam Safety 2018! Join us September 9 -13, 2018 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA. Dam Safety 2018 is designed for the following members of the dam and levee safety community: • State or Federal Dam Safety Officials • Civil, Geotechnical, Environmental, and Structural Engineers • Scientists and Technicians • Dam Owners & Operators • Service and Product Suppliers • Engineering Consultants • Academic Professors and Researchers • Students • Hydrologists and Geologists • Emergency Management Professionals • Flood Plain Professionals Learn more and download a condensed version of this packet to submit for approval purposes at DamSafety.org/DS18.

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