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• 3D Geologic Modeling and Probabilistic Stability Analyses Support a Rock Face Stabilization Project at Boundary Dam, Pend Oreille River, Washington State (R. Cannon, F. Snider, A. Rutledge, J. Gagnon, A. Ball and K. Pate)
• 3D Geological Modeling as a Tool for Evaluating Dam Foundations (C. Bartsch, R. Romocki, T. R. Kincaid and W. Hultman)
• Deformation-based versus Limit Equilibrium Analyses to Assess the Effect of Repeated Rise and Fall of Water Level on the Stability of Princeville Levee (R. Jadid, B. Montoya, M. Gabr and V. Bennett)
• 70th Anniversary of the Columbia River Dike Failure (S. Durgin)
• 80th Anniversary of the Fort Peck Dam Construction Slide (C. G. Redlinger, K. A. Ferguson and L. M. Berre)
• 110th Anniversay of Hauser Dam Failure, Montana (S. Durgin)
• 1978 Palagnedra Dam Incident in Switzerland (J. Arkins and A. Dominitz)
• A Centrifuge Study on the Effects of Soil Gradation on Liquefaction Potential and Dynamic Response (A. Sturm, G. Shepard, J. DeJong and D. Wilson)
• A Comparison of Risk and Resilience Interpretations of the Crisis at Oroville (L. Hollins, D. A. Eisenberg and T. P. Seager)
• A Comprehensive Approach to Inundation Analysis for the Baker River Hydroelectric Project (K. J. Ruswick, A. Rutledge, L. W. Crowley, A. Tabrizi and J. Gile)
• A Review of the Historical Design of Concrete Dams Holding the Middle Third (K. Griebenow)
• An Improved Approach to Explaining Dam Breach Information to First Responders (B. Israel-Devadason and P. Schweiger)
• 90th Anniversary of St. Francis Dam Failure (N. Gee, J. Wilkman and I. Alvi)
• Application of a Systemic Integrated Framework for Spillway Inspection and Assessment (A. R. Firoozfar, K. S. Dosanjk, K. C. Moen, E. T. Zapel and W. R. Fiedler)
• Applying New Probabilistic Framework to Capture Extreme Uncertainty in Risk Management for Levee System Safety (A. Mostofi)
• How Joining Asset and Dam Safety Risks Provides Greater Insight into Management Decisions - Assessment of Nine Dams on the Waikato River, New Zealand (M. J. Harris, W. Oxley and M. Gillon)
• Assessment of Rock Mass Failure Modes Related to Block 18/19 Movement, Upper Baker Dam, Puget Sound Energy (R. Whistler, R. Romocki and W. Hultman)
• Case Studies of the Seismic Performance of Levee Segments on Peat Foundation Soil (Y. T. Tsai, S. Brandenberg, J. Stewart and A. Mikami)
• The Challenges of Non-Program Levees (A. J. Orlovsky and A. S. Whiting)
• Concepts for Probabilistic Dam Breach Modeling (C. Goodell)
• Considerations for Embankment Dam Toe Drain Design: An Inspection and Maintenance Perspective (B. Hart, M. Freeman, R. Proctor, N. Lowe and M. Pabst)
• Cost Effective Evacuation Mapping: DSS-WISE Vs. HEC-RAS 2D; When to go the Extra Mile (C. D. Hill, M. E. Pitman and M. Mahowald)
• Dam Drone Inspections - Low Cost, High Value Data - The New Exchequer Dam Story (G. M. Meister)
• Dam Ownership Risks and Burdens: Raising Public Awareness through Educating Real Estate Agents (E. Moradi and Y. Sugeng)
• Dam-Induced Flooding: Scenarios, Consequences, and Difficult Choices for NRCS Dam Rehabilitation Projects (S. Durgin)
• Designing a High Hydraulic Asphalt Core Rockfill Dam for Colorado (D. Montgomery, T. Scott, C. Weber and J. Donnelly)
• Designing Geotextiles to Span Open Cracks in Embankments (B. C. Doerge and K. K. Visser)
• Discussion of Lessons to be Learned from the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway Incident (J. W. France, T. E. Craddock, D. E. Capka, S. K. Tapia, R. L. Raeburn, B. McCormick and D. Brinker)
• Embankment Breach Research: Observed Internal Erosion Processes (A. K. Ali, S. L. Hunt, R. D. Tejral and D. M. Temple)
• Environmental Consequence Classification of Mine Dam Failures: Updating the Canadian Classification System (L. Nikl, J. Steele, L. Robertson, S. Davidson and R. Schryburt)
• Evaluation and Optimization of Dynamic Cone Penetration test (DPT) for Assessment of Liquefaction in Gravelly Soils (K. M. Rollins, T. L. Youd and M. Talbot)
• Evaluation of the Suitability of Sand Material for Filters in Dams (D. N. Frechette and S. Brown)
• Federal Levee Safety Guidelines (N. D. Vroman and M. K. Sharp)
• FEMA Public Assistance for Dams - Eligibility and Implementation Outline (P. Wilson)
• Fine Tuning a Piano Key Weir: The Story of the Lake Peachtree Spillway Replacement Project (J. R. Collins, R. Bass, B. Crookston and J. Dean)
• First secant pile dam repair in Sweden (I. Ekstrom and M. Ljunggren)
• The Floating Bulkhead: A Practical, Flexible, and Economical Approach to Dewatering Gates (C. Goodwin and T. Rudolph)
• Geologic and Geotechnical Considerations for Condition Assessments of Unlined Spillways in the Sierra Nevada, California (R. A. McManus and D. G. Kennedy)
• Grouting in Dams and Levees: The Fundamentals (D. A. Bruce)
• Hold Back the Dam, Boys! The Story of the Minnedosa Spillway Failure - May 1948 (J. Pittman)
• How Multiple Dam EAP Table Top Exercises are a Win-Win Situation (N. S. Rogers and M. C. Johnson)
• Hurrican Harvey: Analyzing and Preventing Floods Inside a Levee (P. Margin)
• Hyatt Dam - Challenges of Modifying a 96-Year-Old Embankment Dam to Address Internal Erosion Risk (E. Ouellette, B. Demars and T. S. McFarland)
• Implications of Updating Inundation Mapping for Use in Emergency Action Plans: Sutherlin Dams (E. G. Robison and M. Walther)
• Improving Watershed Precipitation Frequency Estimates for Risk-Informed Decision-Making (D. Martin, K. Ward, J. Caldwell and M. Schaefer)
• In Situ Stress Measurements and Instrumentation Installation - Duke Energy Walters Dam, Waynesville, North Carolina (A. Shaffer, E. Hemstad, B. Haveman, C. Forsha and B. Keaton)
• Installation and Verification Monitoring of High Capacity Multi-Strand Tendons for Dam Anchoring (M. Sinclair)
• Introducing NRCS Design Guidance for Artciluated Concrete Block Armored Spillways (J. Fripp and S. Durgin)
• Iron Gate Stilling Basin Rehabilitation (K. T. Adamec, N. Higa and R. L. Raeburn)
• Is It Time to Update Federal Guidelines for Dam Safety, FEMA 64 EAPs (R. Beduhn)
• Lake Delhi Dam Reconstruction - A Good Dam Story (W. Holman)
• Methods to Better Understand Seismic Behavior of Concrete Arch Dams (A. L. Corn, G. S. Lund, E. K. Gleason and D. Brinker)
• Observed Trends during Spillway Assessments (K. Maher, C. Miyamoto and D. Gutierrez)
• One Hurricane After Another... So, Are My Dams OK? - Rapid Assessment of Potential Dam Failures in Puerto Rico following Hurricanes Irma and Maria (J. Keeling, E. Beadenkopf, A. Springett, J. Demby, Jr. and S. Rahman)
• Criteria for Controlled Close Proximity Blasting at the Oroville Dam Spillways and Flood Control Structure (J. Lemke, M. Driller, M. Schulta, G. Revey and A. Islam)
• Oroville Dam Vegetated Study (R. M. Abernathy and L. F. Harder, Jr.)
• Critical Infrastructure and Flood Risk Management Innovation for Dam Safety Monitoring (G. Alexander and K. Osborne)
• 20th Anniversary of the Archusa Dam Failure (J. Atkins)
• Development of Hydrologic Hazard Curves Using SEFM for Assessing Hydrologic Risks at Rhinedollar Dam, CA (B. Barker, M. Muto, J. Dong, J. Caldwell, K. Ward, N. Novembre and B. Allen)
• Electric Lake Dam - Physical Modeling of the Morning Glory Outlet Works (K. Blezy, B. Hughes and R. Raeburn)
• Use of Fragility Analyses on Dams for Use in Informing Design (M. Boone and A. Hashemi)
• Eastvale Dam Emergency Repair: A Collaborative Approach (J. Deible, P. Logsdon, S. Zang and J. Conville)
• Lessons Learned from Over 53 NRCS Dam Breach Analyses Using HEC-RAS 2D (S. Deo and K. Rich)
• The Use of 2D High-Resolution Dam Break FLood Maps on the Implementation of Emergency Action Plans (R. Garcie, P. Torres and R. Rosa)
• Inexpensive Model Dam Building Provides a Wealth of Firsthand Experience (M. G. Garrett and T. Child)
• Trunnion Transition Plate Modeling Techniques and the Resulting Strut Behavior in Radial Gate Finite Element Analyses (K. Gerst, C. Buller and R. Raeburn)
• Assessment of Potential Tree Root Impacts on the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway Incident (L. F. Harder)
• Geotechnical Apoplications of Unmanned Aerial System Surveys for Inspection and Investigation (M. Hughes, T. Moyer and R. Bixon)
• Labyrinth Weir Foundation Design on Highly Expansive Soil (S. Hutcherson)
• Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) Disaster Recovery Program (K. Kiniry, R. Ayala, A. Black, J. Brock and C. Fenner)
• Modernization of a Dam Safety Inspection and Instrumentation Program (B. Phillips)
• Opportunity to Restore Fish Passage at a Small Coastal Dam (M. Prociv and D. Raines)
• Uncertainty Analysis of Dam Breach Flooding Extents Using FEMA DSS-WISE Lite (M. Shih, C. Thompson and J. D. Head)
• Zoned Earthen Embankment Dam Construction Techniques and Approaches (B. T. Sisco)
• Hard Rock vs. Heavy Metal - an Innovative Sediment Bypass Tunnel Armoring Solution (R. E. Smith, E. Engberg and T. Gilliland)
• The Influence of the Reservoir Geometry Input Approach on the Dam Breach Outflow Hydrograph La Plata Dam Breach Analysis, Toa Alta, PR (P. A. Torres)
• Balancing Costs and Benefits: Value Engineering of Native American Dams throughout the United States (M. Young, L. Mauney and A. Knaak)
• Physical Modeling of Air Demand at Cedar Cliff Dam Using 1:8 and 1:19 Scale Models (D. Gressler, A. Johansson, C. Miller, J. Eddy, B. Keaton and H. Kocahan)
• Post-Tensioned Anchor Load Distribution for Gated-Spillway Lift Joint Stabilization (D. M. W., W. H. Walton and D. R. Tripp)
• Practical Experience with Development and Implementation of Effective Construction Monitoring Plans (J. Kudritz, B. Afek and J. Bench)
• Preserving Instrumentation at New Waddell Dam (A. L. Ashcroft)
• Quantification and Mitigation fo Uplift on a Non-Ogee Shaped Spillway Crest: Numerical and Physical Hydraulic Modeling of Mathis Dam (J. Orlins, Z. Taylor, D. Gessler and T. Barber)
• Research Update on Dams Sector Topics: Following the Train of Innovation (Y. Seda-Sanabria and M. K. Sharp)
• Risk-Based Forecasting to Support Operational Decision Making in the Eastern Sierras (N. Novembre, B. Barker, J. Caldwell, B. Allen, M. Muto and J. Dong)
• Risk-Informed Hydrologic Design Using Stochastic Models (J. Wright)
• Scanning Sonar Applications for Dam Inspections and Bathymetric Surveys (T. B. Vermeyen)
• SSPMP, RIDM, Climate Uncertainty, and U.S. (M. McMahon)
• Status of Inventory and Review Activities with Non-Federal Levee Systems (J. L. McVicker)
• Temporal Distribution of Probable Maximum Precipitation (J. Wilson)
• The Big Year - 2,000 Dam Inspections Later! (S. L. Whiteside, P. X. Gambill, D. K. Neamtu, J. D. Boyer and J. M. McCain)
• The Human Element: Warning and Evacuation During the Oroville Dam Incident (G. Richards, J. T. Needham and J. Pope)
• The Power of GIS in the Regulation of Dams (D. Myers and J. Watts)
• Updating PMP Analysis Through Collaboration - The Colorado-New Mexico Regional Extreme Precipitation Analysis, Setting a New Standard of Practice (B. Kappel, D. Hultstrand and G. Muhlestein)
• Use of Fat Clays in Design of Levees (R. E. Martin, G. Sills and D. Williams)
• Uncertainty in Hydrologic Estimates (A. C. Miller)
• Earthen Levee Breach Analyses in South Florida Everglades Protected Areas (S. Yue)
• Colorado's Comprehensive Dam Safety Evaluation Process Uncovers Long History of Dam Safety Concerns and Prompts Immediate Action at Marshall Lake Dam (R. Schoolmeesters and J. Hunyadi)
• Waterproofing a Multiple Arch Dam in a Cold Mountainous Environment with PVC Geocomposite Membrane (J. Wilkes, B. Blankinship, B. Safavi, J. Fernandez and N. von Gersdorff)
• Using Technology to Better Understand Seepage at the Laurel Bed Dam in Virginia (T. Roberts, D. Sipher, R. Blanchard, K. Wall and D. Bierman)
• Using a Distributed Hydrologic Model for a Dam Safety Study in a Small Ungauged Basin (C. S. Engel, S. R. Stanton, M. C. Quinn and J. D. Ellis)
• Use of Stochastic Storm Transposition Methods for Developing the PMF for FERC-regulated Bear River, Utah Hydroelectric Project (A. H. Dietrich, V. Sankovich, T. Parzybok, C. Bahner and R. Raeburn)
• Use of FLAC Modeling and Other Factors for Assessing Operational Risk at Ritschard Dam (D. Meyer, R. D. Tenney and T. Adams)
• Toward Industry-Wide Use of Best Technical Practices (M. E. Baker)
• Third Time's the Charm: South Carolina's Dam Safety Program's Experience with Hurrican Irma, the State's Third Significatn Storm Event in Three Years (J. Stewart, J. McCain and S. Frazer)
• NRCS-DamWatch, Lessons Learned and Looking Ahead (S. Durgin, L. Caldwell and J. Scannell)
• My 23-year Perspective of PMP and Precipitation Frequency Estimates for Dam Safety Applications in the United States (T. W. Parzybok)
• Low Head Dams - Addressing Safety AT Dams (M. Johnson)
• Innovation in Colorado: High Hazard Dam Release - Downstream Floodplain Impacts Database and Tools (B. McCormick, K. Bauer and A. J. Hess)
• Digitizing Field Data Collection and Facilitating Inspections - Our Experience (E. Hill and P. Joshi)
• Inches of Flood Risk Reduction, Miles of Community Benefits - Balancing Goals & Interests Through a String of Dam Removal Projects on the Pawcatuck River (N. S. Wiberg)
• A Dam Innovative Solution: Cutoff Walls and Pressure Grouting at Georgia's Richland Creek Dam (E. Ramos, R. Delhaye, H. C. Robinson and B. Barkauskas)
• Flood Model for the World-Record-Setting July 1942 Smethport Storm - Supporting the Pennsylvania Probable Maximum Precipitation Study (B. Kappel and J. Bellini)
• Observations and Lessons Learned from FERC's Spillway Inspection Initiative (D. Johnson, J. Nettle and E. Kennedy)
• Oroville Flood Control Outlets and Folsom Auxiliary Spillway - How the Offspring Differs from the Parent (C. M. Nolan, E. Thompson, K. R. Pattermann, M. K. Louie and N. Cox)
• Lower Baker Dam - 2: Evaluating Erodibility, Mitigating Leakage, and Addressing Potential Failure Modes at a Concrete Arch Dam through Groundwater Modeling (T. Kincaid, R. Romocki, B. Meyer, G. Annandale, H. Falvey and W. Hultman)
• New Case Studies with Texas' New PMP Tool - Small and Large Dam Watersheds, Comparisons to HMR 51/52, and Dilemmas (K. Rich, C. Parker and S. Deo)
• See What's New at DamFailures.org! (G. Richards)
• Seismic Evaluation of Gatun Dam - Panama Canal (L. Mejia, M. De Puy and A. Abrego)
• The Mud Pond / Lake Lee Dam Failures - A Story of Fatal Mistakes in Two Centuries (R. L. Wooten, W. C. Salomaa, A. Dominitz, P. Marinelli and E. M. Connor)
• What Happens when Spillway Gates Can't be Opened (D. M. Gomez and K. Miller)
• What was the Value of Flood Control during Last Week's Storm? Use the New NRCS Watershed Benefits Model to Find Out (L. Caldwell, G. Utley and J. Henley)
• What we know today about our nations levees: The Levee Portfolio Report (E. C. Halpin, N. D. Vroman and B. J. Arcement)
• Where's the Risk? An Analysis of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Levee Risks (H. L. Ellis, L. H. Roth and E. Mullin)
• WinDAM, A Dam Safety Engineering Tool for Breach and Non-Breach Flood Events (S. L. Hunt, S. Durgin, K. Visser, D. M. Temple, R. D. Tejral and A. K. Ali)
• "You Don't Know What You Don't Know" - Inspecting Spillways and Assessing Potential Failure Modes (P. Schweiger and R. A. Kline)
• Zero to Thirty in Sixty Days - Critical Levee Repair Sites Rehabilitation Effort, Central Valley, California (R. Millet, A. Lopez, D. Wheeldon, K. Zenobia, R. Nixon and L. Murray)
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