Modernization and Optimization of Existing Dams and Reservoirs:

Dam Construction and Rehabilitation
Alternative Project Delivery Methods for Dam Construction and Rehabilitation (Daniel J. Hertel, Barnard Construction Company, Inc.; Daniel L. Johnson, GEI Consultants,Inc.; William R. Fiedler, Bureau of Reclamation; and Dietmar Scheel, MWH Americas, Inc.)

Management of Costs and Schedules on the Olivenhain Dam Project (Geraldo R. Iglesia, G2D Resources, LLC; Gerard E. Reed III, San Diego County WaterAuthority; Thomas O. Keller, GEI Consultants, Inc.; and Kenneth A. Steele, San Diego County Water Authority)

Estimating Costs and Escalation in Today’s Market (Robert G. Aaserude and Michael F. Rogers, MWH Americas, Inc.; and Daniel J. Hertel, Barnard Construction Company, Inc.)

Reconstructing River Reservoir No. 3 — From Emergency Action to Breach to Safe Operation in 21 Months (Del Shannon, Black & Veatch Corporation; James R. Swaisgood, Swaisgood Consulting; and Michael Johnson, Arizona Department of Water Resources)

Yorkville Dam Modification: Challenges and Opportunities (Loren A. Wobig, Illinois Department of Natural Resources)
Use of Geosynthetics to Rehabilitate Fisher Cañon Dam and Reservoir (Richard A. Millet and Jennifer L. Williams, URS Corporation; Dennis A. Minchow, Broadmoor Development Co.; and John B. Heap, Colorado Lining International)

The 2006 ICOLD Bulletin on Geomembrane Sealing Systems for Dams (Robert M. Koerner, Geosynthetic Institute; and John A. Wilkes, CARPI USA, Inc.)

Arkabutla Dam Outlet Conduit — Methods Used to Seal Monolith Joints Against Loss of Foundation Materials Since 2003, Arkabutla, MS (Dale A. Goss, Corps of Engineers)

Completion of Saluda Dam Remediation — An Engineering Challenge (Jeffrey M. Bair, Umesh Dayal and John P. Osterle; Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Inc.)

Experiences with Risk Management
Reflections on a Decade of Risk-Based Dam Safety Decision Making (Bruce C. Muller, Jr., Bureau of Reclamation)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dam Safety Program — Status and Lessons in Transitioning to Risk Informed Approaches (Eric C. Halpin, Corps of Engineers)

Utilization of Risk in a Dam Safety Regulatory Environment (Patrick J. Regan and Daniel Mahoney, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)

Lessons Learned from the Failure of the Taum Sauk Dam (Kevin S. Richards, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)

Application of Risk Assessment Methods
Tolerable Risk for Dams: How Safe Is Safe Enough? (David S. Bowles, Utah State University and RAC Engineers & Economists)

Rough River Dam Safety Assurance Project (Timothy M. O'Leary, Corps of Engineers)

Cedar Moraine Embankment Study (Dalong “Daniel” Huang, Seattle Public Utilities; and Ed Heavey, Landau Associates, Inc.)

Design of Embankment Heights for Shallow Aboveground Reservoirs — Understanding Risk and Uncertainty (Robert C. Tucker, Lori L. Hadley and Sean L. Smith, Corps of Engineers)

Risk Assessment of Levees and Dikes
Fragility Analysis of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Levees (Said Salah-Mars, Arulnathan Rajendram, Michael Forrest, Kanagalingam Thangalingam, Segaran Logeswaran and Ram Kulkarni, URS Corporation; and Ralph Svetich, California Department of Water Resources)

Herbert Hoover Dike: Major Rehabilitation (Jacob Davis, Corps of Engineers)

Embankment Dams and Geotechnical
Considerations for Filter Design (Mark Pabst, Bureau of Reclamation)

Monte Carlo Simulation of the No-Erosion Filter Test (Christopher Hill and Mohsen Beikae, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California)

Compaction Grouting of Five Channels Dam — Au Sable River, Michigan (Jeffrey M. Bair and Howard Gault, Paul C. Rizzo Associates; Peter J. Hutchinson, The Hutchinson Group; and Stuart Johnson, Consumers Energy)

An Application of Simplified Probabilistic Stability Analysis to an Embankment Dam (John W. France and Imran S. Gillani, URS Corporation)

Strength of Materials for Embankment Dams: State of the Practice (Ralph W. Rabus, TCB)

Determination of Cap Model Parameters Using Drained Conventional Triaxial
Compression Test Results (Kevin Z. Z. Lee, Bureau of Reclamation; Nien-Yin Chang, University of Colorado at Denver; and Kuang-Tsung Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

Three-Dimensional FLAC Stability and Deformation Analysis — How Much Caution Is Needed? (John W. France and Imran S. Gillani, URS Corporation)

Seepage and Interim Risk Reduction Measure Evaluation for Bolivar Dam (Sean Carter, Erich Guy, Michael Robinette and Greg Hensley, Corps of Engineers)

Diagnosing Embankment Seepage with Controlled Source-Frequency Domain Magnetics (Val Kofoed, Willowstick Technologies, LLC; and Keith Gardiner, United Utilities)

Design and Performance of Drains on Pervious Foundations (Mark Pabst, Bureau of Reclamation)

Characterization of Iron-Ore Mine Waste Rock Piles to Assess Potential for Use in Salton Sea Rock-Fill Barriers (Andrew Finney and John Livingston, CH2M Hill, Inc.)

Concrete Dams
Current State-of-the-Practice for Existing Gravity Dam Stability Analysis (Robert A. Kline and Boyd Howard, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; and Steven M. Davidheiser, Lakhani & Jordan Engineers, P.C.)

Green Lane Gets Green Light: Parameter Sensitivity in Gravity Dam Stability Analysis (Greg Paxson, Schnabel Engineering; Tony Fernandes, Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.; and Dave Campbell, Schnabel Engineering)

Wanapum Spillway Flood Stability Review (A. Richard Griffith, James H. Rutherford and J. Groeneveld, Hatch Acres; and David D. Moore, Grant County Public Utility District No. 2)

Impact of Contaminated Lift Joints on RCC Tensile Strength (James L. Stiady, G2D Resources, LLC; Jim Zhou, Gerard E. Reed III and Jeff Shoaf, San Diego County Water Authority)

Zone of Alkali/Aggregate Reaction in Carters Reregulation Dam, North Georgia (James H. Sanders, Jr., Toy S. Poole and Bruce C. Barker, Corps of Engineers)

Carter Lake Intake Tower Design: Comparing and Contrasting Design Methods (Scott L. Jones, Michael Zusi and Steve Higinbotham, URS Corporation)

Nonlinear Structural Analysis for San Vicente Dam Raise (Gilles Bureau and Thomas O. Keller, GEI Consultants, Inc.; and Jim Zhou, San Diego County Water Authority)

Hydrology and Hydraulics
Major Repair of Hydraulic Steel Structures, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District (Michael G. Scott and Marvin Parks, Corps of Engineers)

Modernization of the Salt Springs Dam Outlet Works (Michael C. Johnson, Utah State University; James E. Pearman, Rodney Hunt Company; and Rod Lubben, Consulting Engineer

Ballpark PMFs (John Harrison and Greg Paxson, Schnabel Engineering)

Managing Debris Dams/Basins after Wildfires and Subsequent Storm Events (Jang H. Pak, Shih H. Chieh and Kerry T. Casey, Corps of Engineers)

Summary of Results from the California Tainter Gate Reevaluation Program (Mark Schultz, Phu Huynh and Shawn Jones, California Department of Water Resources)

Redesign of Tainter Gate Trunnion Bearings — Tuttle Creek Lake Project, Manhattan, Kansas (Michael G. Scott, Corps of Engineers)

Repairs of Spillway Gate Weld Deficiencies and Upstream Face of Dam Pier Cracks and Wall Weathering and Erosion — Hartwell Dam (Donald L. Smith and Harold C. Thomas, Corps of Engineers)

Head Discharge Curves for a Mechanical Fuseplug (Fusegate) Spillway: Flood Damage and Gate Operation Considerations at Otter Brook Dam, Keene, New Hampshire (Patrick Blumeris, Corps of Engineers)

Environment
The Use of Spreadsheet Programs as a Tool in Reservoir Design and Optimization (Manoshree Sundaram, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and Terrence E. Arnold and J. Felipe Garcia, MWH Americas, Inc.)

Determining Baseline Conditions for Impact Analysis of San Vicente Dam Raise and Carryover Storage Project (M. Kelley Gage, San Diego County Water Authority; and Paul J. Amberg, Kenneth M. Bogdan and Michael S. Jewell, Jones & Stokes)

Project Benefits of Structured Engineering-Environmental Interaction: A Case Study (Jack L. White, CH2M Hill, Inc.; Thomas O. Keller, GEI Consultants, Inc.; Laurence J. Purcell and Kelley Gage, San Diego County Water Authority; and Michael J. Gonzales, PBS&J, Inc.)

Instrumentation and Monitoring
Correlation Plot — A Modern Tool in Dam Safety Monitoring (Eugene Gall, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)

Canton Dam Stabilization Design, Instrumentation and Construction (Greg Yankey, FMSM Engineers; Cary Lange, Nicholson Construction Co.; Tom Pace, FMSM Engineers; Randel Mead, Corps of Engineers; and Paul Krumm, and Richard Deschamps, Nicholson Construction Co.)

Deformation Monitoring Upgrade for a 106-Year Old Masonry Dam (Mark W. Rohde, Coler & Colantonio, Inc.; and Richard F. Murray, Jr., City of Holyoke)

Utilizing Cartridge Type Flow Meter for Automated Monitoring of Seepage Flow from a Dam (Somalingam Balachandran and Joseph J. Kulikowski, GENTERRA Consultants, Inc.; and Joseph McDivitt, South Coast Water District)

Dam Decommissioning
To Rehabilitate or Not to Rehabilitate? Decision-Making Using Cost-Benefit Analysis for Aging Dams (Katherine E. Sharpe, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; Kurt Staller, McMahon Associates, Inc.; James Featherston, USDA-NRCS; and Dean B. Durkee, Gannett Fleming, Inc.)

Removal of Large Dams and Site Restoration — Breaching of Birch Run Dam (Timothy W. Johnston, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; Vince Humenay, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; and Eric C. Neast and Cy R. Whitson, Gannett Fleming, Inc.)

San Clemente and Matilija Dam Removal: Alternative Sediment Management Scenarios (Mark H. Capelli, National Marine Fisheries Service)

Seismic Issues
Residual Shear Strength of Liquefied Soils (I. M. Idriss and Ross W. Boulanger, University of California, Davis)

Seismic Risks to the Seepage Cutoff Wall at Clearwater Dam (Alan F. Rauch, Jeffrey S. Dingrando and Thomas G. Pace, Fuller, Mossbarger, Scott and May Engineers, Inc.; and Robert E. Van Cleave II and Mark C. Harris, Corps of Engineers)

Full-Scale Verification of Coupled-Mode Excitation of a 50-Ton Tainter-Gate (Keiko Anami, Ashikaga Institute of Technology; Noriaki Ishii, Osaka ElectroCommunication University; Charles W. Knisely, Bucknell University; Tatsuya Oku, Osaka Electro-Communication University)

Poster Session
Dam Development Strategy in Vietnam, Technical and Environmental Aspects (Pham Hong Giang, Vietnam National Committee on Large Dams; Trinh Cong Van, Hydraulic Engineering Consultant Company No. 2; Pham Hong Nga, Water Resources University; and Nguyen Luong Am, Engineering Contractors No. 47)

Using the QFD Approach as a Safety Management Tool in Dam Engineering (Murat Gündüz, Metin Arikan and Burak
Şimşek, Middle East Technical University)

Determination of Wave Run-Up and Over-Wash Rates for Optimizing Levee Height Requirements(Lori L. Hadley, Robert C. Tucker and Sean L. Smith, Corps of Engineers)