2019 ASDSO Annual Conference Proceedings

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Opening General Session - Adapting to Climate Change: Challenging Ourselves to Get Ahead of the Risk
• Let’s Hear From the Climatologists: A Review of the Observed Data (Kenneth E. Kunkel)
• Hurricanes Harvey and Florence, Are Storms Changing and How Does This Effect PMP Depths? (Bill Kappel, Doug Hultstrand, Jake Rodel, and Kristi Steinhilber)
• Let’s Apply This Knowledge to Dam Safety and Be Creative (Bill McCormick)

Concurrent Session 1: Spillway Modeling 2D - 3D
• Beyond Floodplain Analysis: A Modeler’s Experience Using HEC-RAS 2D for Spillway Assessments and Designs (Yan Wang, Amanda J. Hess and Gregory L. Richards)
• Improving the Geometry of Fixed-Crest Control Sections to Increase Spillway Discharge Capacity (Benjamin Israel Devadason and Paul Schweiger)
• Spillway Modeling: Comparing 1D, 2D and Physical Scale Model Results (Nicholas Miller and Maryam Bral)

Concurrent Session 2: Smart Application of Risk Principles
• Availability Bias in Dam Safety (Matthew S. Balven and Alex Brekke)
• Using Qualitative Screening-Level Risk Assessment Approach for Regulatory Management of a Large Inventory of Dams (Eric J Gross, P.E.)
• Applying Risk Analyses to Early Design Phases of Dam and Levee Projects (Jennifer Williams, Julie Heitland and Greg Werncke)

Concurrent Session 3: Cutoff Walls
• The Application of the Deep Mixing Method to Dam and Levee Remediation (Donald A. Bruce)
• Composite Cutoff Wall Construction for the Diavik Diamond Mine in Northern Territories Canada (Bob Faulhaber and Harald Heinzlemann)
• Assessment of the Feasibility of a Plastic Concrete Cutoff Wall in Dams Built on Landslides (Jennifer Ostrowski, John Rice, and James Bay)

Concurrent Session 4: Dead Beat Dams
• Natural River Alignment Reclaimed through Dam Removal (Daniel Priest and Daniel DeVaun)
• Blood from a Stone: Lessons Learned Removing an Unsafe Dam (John Roche, Kirk Mantay and Geoffrey Goll)
• The Tallest Dam Removal in Massachusetts (Psst…the regulators allowed us to release 10,000 CY of sediment downstream) (Matthew A. Taylor and Laurie A. Gibeau)

Concurrent Session 5: Decade Dam Failure Series Part I
• "The Dam is Becoming Dangerous and May Possibly Go!" The South Fork Dam Failure (Clint Brown and Dylan Hoehn)
• The Failure of Quail Creek Dike: Lessons Learned and Relearned (Everett Taylor and Nathaniel Gee)
• Averting Failure Due to Spring Runoff – North Dakota’s Historic Flood of 2009 (Karen Goff, Jonathan Kelsch, Chad Engels and Gregory Richards)

Concurrent Session 6: Step Right Up for Steps and Blocks
• Stepped Chute Design: Does Step Shape Really Matter? (Sherry L. Hunt and Kem C. Kadavy)
• Verification of CFD Predictions of Self-aeration Onset on Stepped Chute Spillways (John Wendelbo)
• Hydraulic Jump Stability of Articulating Concrete Block Systems (James Nadeau)

Concurrent Session 7: Addressing Seepage Issues
• Filters - Can You Trust Them? (Benjamin C. Doerge)
• Use of a Geosynthetic Clay Liner to Rehabilitate the Lower Chinns Dam, Clear Creek County, Colorado (Steve Kuehr and Ryan Schoolmeesters)
• Discovery and Remediation of Internal Erosion/Piping Voids between Incompatible Materials (Brian Tri, Bill Kussmann, Robb Roy and Dean Steines)

Concurrent Session 8: Global Perspectives on Tailings Issues
• Two-dimensional runout evaluation of the Brumadinho Tailings dam failure in Brazil (Reinaldo Garcia and Adolfo Tribst-Correa)
• Calculating Tailings Dam Breach Volumes for Flood Hazard Delineation (Noemi Gonzalez Ramirez and Jimmy O’Brien)
• The Increasing Number of Tailings Facility Failures: Navigating the Decade 2020-2029 (David M. Chambers and Lindsay Newland Bowker)

General Session - Today and Yesterday: Recent Dam Safety Failures/Incidents and the 1979 Machhu Dam II Disaster
• Today and Yesterday: Recent Dam Safety Failures/Incidents and the 1979 Machhu Dam II Disaster (Utpal Sandesara, Tom Wooten, Lee Wooten and Mark Baker)

Concurrent Session 9: Learning from Successful Rehabs
• Prestwood Lake Dam Rehabilitation (Kurt Feairheller)
• Consolidation Grouting Program to Strengthen Windsor Upper Dam (James Myers, Andrew Plucinsky and Jacob Wimett)
• The Long Road to Dam Rehabilitation (Christopher W. Marx and Clint J. Oman)

Concurrent Session 10: Breaches, Levees, and Dam Breaks
• Dam Breach Modeling for Five Dams in Glendale California, Challenges and Lessons Learned (Martha Elena Cardona, Jeffery G. Powers and Adam Drozek)
• Risk Informed 2D Breach Analyses for Vermont's Flood Control Dams (Kevin J. Ruswick, Elizabeth Isenstein and Benjamin Green)
• Development of Standard Procedure for Simulating Breach Formation of a Levee Failure (Chris Bahner)

Concurrent Session 11: Focus on Stability
• Shear Strength of Shale Below a High Hazard Dam – How Low Can You Go? (Kessi Zicko, Christopher Bailey and Jon Jamison)
• Three-Dimensional Stability Analyses – How do We Integrate it For Dam Safety? (Tiffany Adams, Masood Kafash and John France)
• Evaluating the Stability of Existing Dry-stacked Stone Masonry Faced Earthen Embankment Dams (Andrea C. Judge)

Concurrent Session 12: Spillway Construction
• Lake Ogletree Spillway - Rehabilitation in the "Holey" Land (J. Tyler Coats, James R. Crowder, P.E and Tim Johnson)
• Hybrid Cofferdam and Piano Key Weir Design and Construction - A Rehabilitation Case Study (Mathew Moses, Hande Gerkus-Harris, and Jesse Madden)
• QA/QC in Spillway Chute Joint Construction (John Harrison)

Concurrent Session 13: The Latest Tools for Mitigating Security Threats and Improving Resiliency
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Vulnerability Assessment Programs (Daniel Genua)
• Infrastructure Visualization Platform Demo (Jaysen Goodwin)
• Shut the Dam Road Down! AVERT Barrier System for Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (Justin M. Roberts)

Concurrent Session 14: Don't Drown at Dams: Best Practices for Public Safety
• CFD Modeling to Evaluate and Improve Public Safety Around Dams (Benjamin Israel-Devadason and Paul G. Schweiger)
• Taking Action on Low-Head Dams: A National Inventory. Rollin H. Hotchkiss)
• Fine Tuning Your Dam Talks to Responders and other Non-engineers (Manuela Johnson and Kenneth Smith)

Concurrent Session 15: Out with the Old & In with the New
• You Wouldn't Believe What They Put (And Didn't Put) In This Dam: The Deconstruction and Breach of Gunter Valley Dam (Christopher M. Hallahan and Steve M. Davidheiser)
• Eureka! There is Mica in Them Thar Hills! Understanding Complex Site Geology and the Impacts on Embankment Construction (Anthony Nokovich and Edward Barben)
• Restoring Gunter Valley (Steven Davidheiser and Matt Leisses)

Concurrent Session 16: Spillway Modeling
• Upstream modeling to reduce risk and uncertainty during construction (Adéle L. Braun, Jed Greenwood, and Cory Anderson)
• Importance of Site-Specific Design for Labyrinth Spillways – Lessons Learned from Upper Brushy Creek Dam 7 Modernization Design and Construction (Victor Vasquez, Tina Stanard, Blake Tullis, and Bruce Savage)
• Arced Labyrinth Weirs in Reservoirs (Seth D. Thompson and Blake P. Tullis)

Concurrent Session 17: Fast-n-Furious Grab-n-Go's
• Spinney Mountain Dam Seepage Mitigation Project How Aurora Water of the City of Aurora, Colorado evaluated and dealt with a persistent seepage issue (John Bruneau and P. Paul Perri)
• Application of DSS-Wise for Review and Approval of Dam Inundation Maps (Blake J. Dolve, Murari Paudel and Ariya Balakrishnan)
• Developing a semi-automated Probable Maximum Precipitation hyetograph using Python programming language (Trevor Grout and Natalie Rogers)
• My dam is failing; who is going to remove it? (Kelly Renee Flint and Anna Sobilo-Ryzner)
• Using New Technology to Safely Perform a Condition Inspection of the Lock Wall at St. Anthony Falls during Run of the River Conditions (Christopher Marr, Derek Schluessler, Brian Tri, and Dean Steines)
• Innovative Geophysical Visualization Technology of Sinkholes Potential Application for Dams? (David B. Harro)

Concurrent Session 18: Implementing Security within State Dam Safety Programs
• Applying Emerging Technologies to Critical Infrastructure (Katherine Osborne and Glen Alexander)
• How Are State Dam Safety Programs Integrating Security Policies and Practices into Dam Safety Program Management? A Panel Discussion with Q&A (Roger Adams, Jonathan Garton, John Moyle, James Gallagher, William E. Vinson, Sharon Tapia)

Concurrent Session 19: Learning from Past Failures
• Clear Branch Dam: A Case Study in the Physical and Human Factors of a Spillway Failure (Meghan Walter, John Gillilan and John Markov)
• What Failed Murdock Lake Dam? A Guessing Game of Failure Modes (Andrew Cummings)
• Risk Analysis Perspectives on the Camará Dam Failure (Cassandra Wagner and Dom Galic)

Concurrent Session 20: Studies in CFD
• Lake Wackena Dam Emergency Spillway Modifications (Russell A. Bendel, John T. Grimes, Steven L. Barfuss and Zachary B. Sharp)
• There and Back Again: A Cedar Cliff Modeling Story (Adrian Strain, Joel Bilodeau and Chris Ey and Brad Keaton)
• Best practices for simulating hydraulic structures with CFD (Brian Fox)

Concurrent Session 21: Investigative Methods
• Large-Scale Sonic Drilling To Determine Supporting Fill Parameters (Ingvar Ekström, Magnus Ljunggren, Peter Viklander)
• Geohazard Monitoring of the Ituango Dam, Colombia Using Radar Satellite Based InSAR Technology (Brian Dracup, Molly Zebker, David Holden, Juan David Herrera Caicedo)
• Dynamic Cone Penetrometer Low Cost Testing Applications in Geotechnical Investigations (Rick Scott)

Concurrent Session 22: Transforming Owner Programs
• Results of a Cost-effective, Innovative, Screening Level Dam Hazard Assessment Tool for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Danielle T. Hannes, Andrea D. Fasen, Steve Jamieson, Brad Iarossi, and Constantine Pappas)
• Right-Sizing a Dam Safety Program for Local Governments (George Kelley)
• Improving Understanding of Denver Water’s Dams (Erin Gleason, Darren Brinker, Ashley Hase, John Hunyadi and Ryan Schoolmeesters)

Concurrent Session 23: Raising the Bar for State Programs
• If This Presentation Is Cancelled, We're Probably Dealing with Another Hurricane: The South Carolina Dam Safety Program's Strategic Approach to Intense Rainfall Estimation and Response (Shawn Steven Frazer and Jill C. Stewart)
• "Cookbook" for State Dam Safety Programs Emergency Response to Earthquakes (Chadrick Hill)
• Inundation Mapping and Emergency Action Plan – a California Dam Safety Initiative (Rajat Saha, David Panec, Paul Risher and Abbas Dorostkar)

Concurrent Session 24: Decade Dam Failure Series Part II
• Harrison Park Detention Pond Failure (2009) (Anthony Comerio and Brian Wozniak)
• The 1979 Martin Power Plant Dam Failure R. (Lee Wooten)
• Breach of Situ Gintung Dam, Jakarta, Indonesia (Paul Risher)
• 20th Anniversary of El Guapo Dam Failure (Jonathan Pittman and Johnathon Atkins)

Concurrent Session 25: Technological Advancements in Inspections
• Remote Sensing Inventory of Dams in the Amite River Basin, Louisiana (Dan Schmutz, Danny Goodding, Stephanie K. Garvis, Ed Knight, and Doug Taylor)
• Beam Me up Scotty: Documenting Dam Inspections Using Your Phone or Tablet (Joseph Scannell, Stephen Durgin and Larry Caldwell)
• Upstream Riprap Slope Inspection by Drone – A Case Study (Travis A. Shoemaker and Michael P. McGuire)

Concurrent Session 26: Dam Break Applications
• Dam Breach Arrival Time Delineation Using SimRAS 2D Monte-Carlo Simulation Software (Chris Bahner, Gyan Basyal, Brian Wahlin and Brent Travis)
• Following the Advice of Albert Einstein for a Dam Break Study (Christine Suhonen)
• Dam Breach Modeling Derivatives for Rapid PAR, IDA, and Loss of Life Estimates (Larry Sample)

Concurrent Session 27: Anchors Aweigh
• Investigation and Instrumentation of Embedded Passive Anchors for Large Tainter Gates (Mark Schultz, Travis Adams and Kevin Gerst)
• High Capacity Bar Anchors - All Bars are Not Created Equal (Mark Rothbauer and Andrew Moran)
• Re-Anchoring of Bagnell Dam (Paul C. Rizzo, James Gagliardi, Jeff Greer)

Concurrent Session 28: Lights, Camera, Action! Set the Scene for Your Career.
• Advancing your Dam Safety Career- A panel of veteran Dam Safety Professionals (Geezers) discuss careers, what they did right, wrong and lessons learned from both. (Nathaniel Gee, Roger Adams, Mark Baker, John France and Paul Schweiger)
• Educating the Dam and Hydro Engineer of Tomorrow (Mark W. Killgore)

Concurrent Session 29: Levee Issues for Geo Techs
• The Impact of the Wood River Lower Cutoff Wall Phase 2 Project on the Permeability of the Levee Foundation Soils and the Levee Safety (Wesley Schmutzler, Matteo Bertoni and Gene Bryant)
• Relief Well Assessment and Design – Southwestern Illinois Levees (Jo Tucker, Mary Knopf and Randy Cook Jr.)
• Laboratory Evaluation of Lightweight Sand Boil Filters (Axel M. Montalvo-Bartolomei and Bryant A. Robbins)

Concurrent Session 30: O'Gee! Outlets & Gates
• Upgrading Low Level Outlets to Modern Day Standards (Kenneth Avery and Greg Johnson)
• Repair or Replace? Considerations for Dam Rehabilitation (Joseph Kudritz, Brian Afek, Jared Deible and Ed Kaminski)
• A CFD Modeling Analysis of Total Downpull Force acting on Bulkhead Gate for Unbalanced Flow Condition (Cheegwan Lee, Ethan Thomson and Raziul Mollah)

Concurrent Session 31: Perspectives on GeoTech Topics
• Not your Grandmother’s Spillway Concrete, Use of New Technology in Concrete (David W. Harris, Mallory A. Westbrooke, WhitneyLe B. Belkowitz and Jonathan S. Belkowitz)
• 85 Years of Change: The Lower Guard Wall at Charleroi Locks and Dam (Timothy A. Hampshire)
• Priest Rapids Spillway Performance and Stability Assessment (Rebecca Simpson and Ian Hunter)

Concurrent Session 32: Coming to Terms with Drones
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Homeland Security Environment (William “Tom” Hewitt)
• Drones Friend or Foe (Randy White)

Concurrent Session 33: Tools and Resources for State Dam Safety Officials
• Design Review Tools, Technical Knowledge Base Town Hall (Michele Lemieux, Greg Paxson, and Mark Baker)

Concurrent Session 34: 2D Hydrology
• A Designer’s Perspective on Potential Changes to the USDA NRCS National Engineering Handbook Hydrology Chapters (Amanda J. Hess and Arthur C. Miller)
• Two-Dimensional (2D) Approach to Hydrologic Modeling (Joseph Vincent Bellini and Petr Masopust)
• Using HEC-RAS 2D Rain-on-Grid for Dam H & H (Ben Rufenacht and Larry Sample)

Concurrent Session 35: Mitigating Construction Risks
• Design of Temporary Cofferdams to Facilitate Dam Rehabilitation Projects (Helen Robinson)
• Cooper Lake Dam: Benefits of a Safe Yield Model for Understanding Water Supply Risk during Dam Rehabilitation Construction (Kevin J. Ruswick, David Railsback, Gregory J. Daviero, and Judith Hansen)
• Are You Comfortable Leaving the Safety of your Dam in the Hands of the Contractor? (Anthony Nokovich, Robert Saber and David Snyder)

Concurrent Session 36: Decade Dam Failure Series Part III
• The 2018 Near-Overtopping Incident of a Tribal High Hazard Dam (Matthew Young, Rinda Tisdale, William Shuter, Chad Krofta and Paul Mesa)
• The Devastation of Hurricane Camille, Schuyler Dam Incident, August 1969, Nelson County, VA (Jonathan Pittman)
• 60th Anniversary of the Montana Yellowstone Earthquake: Quake Lake and the Hebgen Dam Incident (Daniel W. Osmun, Lee Mauney, Dave Sykora, Kathryn Murdock, and Benjamin J, Cope)

Concurrent Session 37: The Best of the Rest
• Halt the Headcut – A Discussion on Earthen Spillway Erosion Cutoff Walls (Gregg Hudock)
• Success and Failure of Instrumentation Programs for Dams (Paul Schweiger)
• Continuity of Risk Informed Decision Making from Design Through Construction for the Isabella Lake Dam Safety Project (David Serafini)

Concurrent Session 38: The future of PMP. What's the End Game?
• Statewide Probable Maximum Precipitation Studies, Where We’ve Been and What’s Next (Bill Kappel, Doug Hultstrand, Geoff Muhlestein, Jake Rodel, and Kristi Steinhilber)
• What can dynamical weather modeling offer 21st Century PMP? (Kelly Mahoney)
• Dust Off Your PMP Studies! Simplified Methods of Screening and Verifying Aging Site Specific PMP Studies (Matthew Lehrer and Nicholas Agnoli)