2022 ASDSO Annual Conference Proceedings

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Opening General Session – 50th Anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Dam Failure
• ASDSO Welcome (Charles Thompson)**
• Re-examination of the Failure of Buffalo Creek Dam, West Virginia on February 26, 1972 (Keith Ferguson & Christopher Krivanec)
• Buffalo Creek Dam Failure of 1972 – Policy Outcomes from the Failure (Jonathan Pittman)*
• Consequences and Lawsuit from the Buffalo Creek Disaster (Nathaniel Gee)**

Concurrent Session 1 – Decade Dam Failures Series Part I
• Human and Social Impacts of the Lawn Lake Dam Failure of 1982 (Dylan Hoehn, Clint Brown, Mark Baker & Alan Pearson)*
• 50th Anniversary of the 1972 Black Hills Flood and Subsequent Canyon Lake Dam Failure – A Disaster of PMP-level Proportions (Keil Neff, Abbas Dorostkar, Greg Richards, Lee Mauney)
• 1802 Failure of Puentes II Dam (A. Tom MacDougall, Diego Saldaña Arce & Seth Thompson)*

Concurrent Session 2 – Understanding Seepage
• Large Scale Permeameter Tests for Internal Erosion Assessment of Widely Graded Materials in Embankment Dams (Maoxin Li, Li Yan, Sasi Sasitharan,& Emily Tham)
• Erosion Resistance and the Impact of Water Content (Peter Irey & Ted Howard)
• A Mooseload of Piezometers: Investigation and Remediation of Seepage at Upper Dam (Gillian M. Williams, Lee Wooten, Chris Karam & Steve Rabasca)

Concurrent Session 3 – What’s New in Roller Compacted Concrete
• Using Cool New Tools to Reduce Risks at Comanche Dam (Steve Jamieson, Christine Mugele, David Hibbs, Brad Iarossi & Jesse Wullenwaber)
• Lessons Learned or Should Have Learned – RCC Design and Construction (Randall P. Bass)*
• I dare you to knock this off! Physical model testing of crest caps on RCC overlays (Tony L. Wahl & Bryan J. Heiner)*

Concurrent Session 4 – High-tech Hydrology
• Hydrologic vs Hydraulic Rainfall-Runoff Modeling (Michael Horst)
• Appyling Stochastic Weather Generation and Continuous Hydrologic Simulation for Critical Infrastructure Design (Joe Bellini, Dennis Johnson & Bill Kappel)*
• Application of a 21-year radar rainfall record to assess changing probability of extreme rainfall in the mid-Atlantic region (Andrew J. Miller, James A. Smith, Mary Lynn Baec & Elijah Claggett)*

Concurrent Session 5 – Warning and Consequences
• Improved Monitoring at Upper Highline Dam to meet Colorado's Early Warning System Program Requirements (Lee Mauney, Loring Crowley & Eric Eisinger)
• Bureau of Indian Affairs Safety of Dams – Early Warning System Challenges and Advancements (Michele Minihane, Katharine Anderson, Kevin Humphreys, and Tim Pauls)*
• Estimating Dam Failure Life-Loss Consequences to Motorists, Recreationalists, and Pedestrians for Hazard Potential Classification of Dams (Chad Krofta, David Jackson & Christopher Clopper & Matt Young)*

Concurrent Session 6 – Improving Inspections
• Risk-Based Dam Inspection Guidelines – Montana Learns from the Oroville Dam Incident (Amanda J. Hess, Greg Richards, Patrick Campana & Michele Lemieux)
• A Lot of Dam Data! Using ESRI's Survey123 and Field Maps Applications To Efficiently Collect Data and Standardize Quarterly Inspection Packages for 30 Dams (Meron Wolde-Tensae & Brandon K. Harris)
• Together is Better – Complimenting Assessments Utilizing Rope Access and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Kenny Dosanjh, Matt Lynch, Eduard Egov & Michael Buga)

Concurrent Session 7 – Potpourri Grab N Go
• Articulating Concrete Block (ACB Design Practice Update (Christopher I. Thornton, Jim Nadeau, Jon Fripp, Karl Visser & Dennis Zeveney)*
• The Tale of Two Spillways (Joseph Bell, James Murphy, Paul Schweiger & Constantine Pappas)*
• How Latest CFD and 2-D Modeling Capabilities Support Dam Rehabilitations (Ahintha Kandamby, Michelle Bowen, Chamil Perera & Mathew Lunemann)
• Cyclic and Static Liquefaction Study for a New Earth Dam in Colorado (Todd Street & Amin Ghorbanpour)
• Caldor Fire Emergency Repairs (Amy Deakyne)*

Concurrent Session 8 – It's Maryland, Hon
• Brighton Dam: Working Together to Repair Unanticipated Damage and Deterioration to Tainter Gates (Brad Zelonis, Richard F Walker, Scott Jones, Robert Pinciotti, Eric Wenz, Claude Modise & Karen A. Wright)
• Goldilocks and the Three EAPs: Working with EAP Templates and Inundation Mapping Guidelines to Ensure They are "Just Right" for your Dam (Kate Naughton, Jeffery Powers, Jeremy Hise, Nancy Hausrath, William Luhn & Kellen Douglas)*
• Historic Ellicott City, Maryland Flooding: Safe and Sound Mitigation Plan (Mark S. Richmond)*

General Session 2 – Dam Safety 3.0 – Changing Our Paradigm
• Federal Lawmakers, Uncommon Dialogue, and FEMA. Reimagining Dam Safety**

Concurrent Session 9 – Explaining Environmental Justice
• Mapping Maryland's Inundation Zones (John Roche & William Ashby)*
• What should we protect? Consequence Analysis that reflects communities' unique assets and vulnerabilities (Katherine Sharpe & Kayla Briggs)*

Concurrent Session 10 – ASDSO Resources Making an Impact
• ASDSO's Technical Knowledge Base – A New Online Resource for the Dam Safety Industry (Greg Richards & Jeremy Franz)*
• Debris, Fire, and Ice – Unusual Hydrologic Conditions and their Impact on Dams and Floods (Recent Highlights from DamFailures.org) (Greg Richards, Bill Johnstone, Doug Johnson, Everett Taylor, John Atkins & Nathaniel Gee)*

Concurrent Session 11 – Focus on Seismic Issues
• Considerations for Subsurface Investigations for Seismic Analysis of Embankment Dams and Levees (Khaled Chowdhury, Ethan Dawson, Georgette Hlepas, Michael Arles, Olivia F. Finlay, Zia Zafir & Raymond B. Seed)
• Framework for Seismic Risk Analysis of Embankment Dams (Glenn J. Rix & Martin W. McCann, Jr)
• How do you perform a DSHA for a distributed seismicity source? (Christie Hale, Glenn J. Rix & E. Onur Tastan)

Concurrent Session 12 – Small But Dangerous. A Programmatic View of Low Head Dams
• A Tool to Identify Dangerous Conditions at Low-Head Dams (Tony L. Wahl & Connie D. Svoboda)*
• Machine Learning for locating low head dams (Salvador Augusto Vinay Mollinedo & Rollin H. Hotchkiss)
• Stream Slope Map to Predict Drowning Potential at Low-head Dams (Jason Poff & Rollin Hotchkiss)

Concurrent Session 13 – Spillway Hydraulics
• Case Study: 2D and 3D/CFD Modeling along Stepped-Chute Spillways with Stilling Basin and Tailwater Weir (Joe Bellini, Dennis Johnson & Tom Saldutti)*
• Is that a hydraulic jump basin or a roller bucket? Physical modeling of the Gross Dam Spillway Stilling Basin (Greg Glunz, Frank Lan, Chris Thornton, Felipe Garcia & Casey Dick, P.E.)
• To step or not to step, that is the question! – Using SpillwayPro to evaluate increased discharge or design head (Bryan J. Heiner & Tony L. Wahl)*

Concurrent Session 14 – Decade Dam Failures Series Part II
• Christmas Catastrophe: Crisis Averted At Adams Lake Dam (Robert C. Hatton & Jon Keeling)
• Edgewick Railroad Fill Failure, Washington State, 1932 (Douglas L. Johnson)
• 1952 Failure of Frenchman Creek Dam (Greg Paxson & Chadrick Hill)
• 10th Anniversary of the Percy Quinn Dam Incident – Two Slides, Two States, One Big Mess! (Dusty Myers & Johnathon Atkins)*
• 1912 Collapse of the Nashville City Reservoir: From Failure to Fortress (Jonathan Pittman & Dawning Wu)
• 1992 Fairfax Lake Dam Piping Incident and Repair (Natalie Orbesen, Zachary Hollandsworth & Cecil Bearden)*

Concurrent Session 15 – Dam Removal Part I
• Multi-benefit Dam Removal Projects for Dam Safety—Dam Removal as a Dam Safety Solution (Katherine Schmidt, Serena McClain, Jessie Thomas-Blate & Brian Graber)*
• Happy Hour is here again! – Long Draught Branch Dam Removal and Stream Restoration (Justin Lennon, Kyle Spendiff, Michael Coco & Dana Havlik)*
• Federal Actors in Dam Removal Policy: Legal and Bureaucratic Influences in the Decommissioning of Powered and Non-Powered Dams in the United States (Arianna Drechsler)

Concurrent Session 16 – State Perspectives on Portfolio Risk Analysis
• Evaluating and Prioritizing Risk for a Portfolio of Dam Assets (Nicolette Schluter, Jeff Blass, G. Michael McIntyre, Spyridon Papadimas, Perry Otwell & John Roche)
• Where to Focus: Benefits of a Portfolio-Level Risk Analysis (Aaron J. Fricke & Moumita Mukherjee)
• Integrating Risk into the NC State Dam Safety Program (Tony Grubbs & William E. Toby Vinson)*

Concurrent Session 17 – Innovations In Monitoring Methods
• Acoustic Methods to Detect Anomalies in an Embankment Dam – A Comparison With Other Geophysical Methods (Sam Johansson, Ingvar Ekström & Mats Persson)
• Use of InSAR to Support Dam Health Monitoring Programs (Cyrus D. Garner, Jordan Keeney & Mike Davis)

Concurrent Session 18 – Modifying Low Head Dams
• Dam Good Fishing without the Snags – Fish Passage at a Low Head Dam (Carmen Lepsch, John Harrison & Brian Crookston)
• Willow River Dam - Innovative Conversion to Compound Rock Arch Rapids (Jessica Olson, Peter Hinck, Crystal Payment)
• Simple Design of a Safer Low Head Dam (Paul A. Cocca, Daniel A. Bennet & Marta Lopez-Egea)

Concurrent Session 19 – Spotlight on State Programs
• Inundation Studies and Downstream Hazard Determination Guidance for Ohio Dams (Matt Marquis)
• Use of Rapid Categorization of Assets Tool (RCAT for Gap Analysis of Physical Security Measures for Flood Management Facilities in California (Rajat Saha, John J. Rizzardo, Jon Ericson, John Paasch & James L. Strife)*
• Trampas Canyon Dam Enlargement (Rick Draeger & Ashley Gobel)

Concurrent Session 20 – Dam Removal Part II
• Assessing the Pre-Dam Removal Ecological Functions of Blackwater Creek, 90 Years after the Construction of College Lake Dam: A High Hazard Dam (Brandon Alderman & Erin Hawkins)*
• Dam Removal using a Pilot Channel for Sediment Management (Maren Hancock, Jonathon Kusa, Marty Melchio, Suzannah Deneau & Jeff Dunlap)
• Breaching and Environmental Impacts of Woodlands Lake Dam a High Hazard Dam (Ivan Gomez, Beth Ann Smith, Nadia Savage & David DeLucia)*

Concurrent Session 21 – Rehabilitation Methods and Materials
• Researching Grout Mix Performance in the Presence of Low Velocity Crossflow Using Large Scale Laboratory Testing for Logan Martin Dam (Joshua Anderson & Eric Manning)*
• Performance of a Test Levee Slope using Bio-Engineered Stabilization on High Plasticity Clay (Amber Spears, Avipriyo Chakraborty, Omer Alzeghoul, Mohammad Sadik Khan & Robert W. Whalin)
• Performance of the Boone Dam during Reservoir Filling following Remediation (John Barrett & Chris Saucier)*

Concurrent Session 22 – Developing Your Risk Toolbox
• Leveraging PFMA to Address Unexpected Foundation Conditions during Active Rehabilitation on a Spillway Chute (Andrea Jacobs, Scott Jones, David Bianco & Chad Knutti)
• Risk Informed Decision Making for Construction, Repair, and Maintenance Projects (Lewis Rounds)
• Potential Failure Mode Screening Analyses (Martin W. McCann, Glenn J. Rix & Thomas Westover)

Concurrent Session 23 – Advancements In Inundation Mapping
• Painless Mapping Using New Mexico OSE Dam Inundation Mapbook Processing Toolset (Hui-Ming (Max) Shih, Allison Wagner, Joseph Machala, Charles N. Thompson & David Heber)
• The Use of Dam Failure Inundation Maps in Exercises (Richard Kusmierczyk)
• The Domino Effect – A Look Into Cascading Dam Failures (Luke Trumble, Bill Kussman, Mark Forest, Lee Mauney & Mark Baker)*

Concurrent Session 24 – Levee Management
• Reverse Water Loadings for Levee Systems – A Lesson from Hurricane Ida (Will McRae, Noah Vroman, Jennifer Stephens)*
• Common Levee O&M Pitfalls – Keeping Sponsors Above Water (Vicki Twerdochlib, Brice Stafne & George Parizek)
• Inspecting Levees within Multiple Jurisdictions (Randy Bushey)*
• The Benefits of Active Levee Sponsor Engagement in the Inspection Process (Kimberly Lukas & Daniel Teak)

Concurrent Session 25 – Geo Tech Case Studies
• Stiles Reservoir Dam – No More Patches (J. Matthew Bellisle & David R. Caouette)
• Anchoring Down in the Peach State (Nate Witter & Nick Ciomei)*
• Run-Of-River Dam Construction: A Team Approach to Navigating Changing Waters (James Guistina & Caroline Wheadon)*
• Leon Hurse Dam – Characterization and Construction Approval of a Five Million Cubic Yard Borrow Area (Mark Ickert, Russ Springer & Adam McKnight)

Concurrent Session 26 – Assessing Spillway Conditions
• Flow Rates Through Joints and Cracks in Spillway Chutes (Tony L. Wahl & Bryan J. Heiner)*
• A New Cloud-Based Tool For Assessment Of Rock Scour Incidents During Floods At High-Head Dams (Erik F.R. Bollaert)
Condition assessment of an urban spillway designed and built in three phases spanning 45 years (Jeffrey R. Keaton & Stewart S. Vaghti)

Concurrent Session 27 – Rainfall: High and Low Frequencies
• High-Frequency Rainfall-Runoff Modeling for Dam Safety Decision-Making (Brent Zundel & Anthony Moritz)
• Quantification of Uncertainty in Precipitation Frequency Estimates Considering Climate Change (Azin Al Kajbaf, Michelle Bensi & Kaye L. Brubaker)*
• State of Statewide PMP – Where We've Been and What's Next (Bill Kappel)*

Concurrent Session 28 – Updates On The National Levee Safety Program
• The National Levee Safety Program: Do We Need a Standard for all Levees in the Nation? (Michael Bachand, Jennifer Laux, and Phoebe Percell)*

Concurrent Session 29 – Near Miss
• Emergency Response at a High Hazard Dam Lasting Weeks (Mark W. Killgore)
• Spillways, Sinkholes, and Slope Failures: Quick Thinking Saves Two Dams (Stephen Spink & Timothy Blair)*
• The 50-Year Anniversary of the Kingsley Dam Wave Erosion Incident (Tim Gokie & Michael A. Drain)

Concurrent Session 30 – Advanced Geo Tech
• Investigating and Addressing Seepage and Slope Stability Issues at Oroville Dam (Leslie F. Harder, Mark Stanley, Christopher Krivanec, Sagar Raj Satyal, Timothy Wehling, Christina Kashiwada, Daniel Cimini, Ashley Cousin, Ryan Abernathy & David Sarkisian)
• Estimating Maximum and Minimum Void Ratio from Index Parameters (Alex Pires-Sturm, Robert Jaeger & Jason DeJong)
• Experimental Overview of Static Liquefaction and Tips to Plan a Successful Laboratory Program (Amin Ghorbanpour)*

Concurrent Session 31 – CFD In Practice
• To the Tune of a Piano-Key: Analysis of Alternatives for Curtis Dam and Hydraulic Design of a Piano-Key Spillway (Seth Thompson, Chad Hoover, Paul Schweiger, Anthony Nokovich & Brian Crookston)*
• Designing or Evaluating a Spillway? Know the Controllers of the Control Section! (Benjamin Israel-Devadason & Paul Schweiger)*
• A Dive into DeHart Dam: How PMP Studies and CFD Modeling Can Reshape a Dam's Rehabilitation Alternatives (Wesley Hollenbach, Casey Robertson, Jeff Blass, and Scott Jones)*

Concurrent Session 32 – The Best Of The Rest
• Dam and Waterway Construction in the early 1900's – A Photographic Journey Through Time (Todd Mueller)*
• Picture This: A 3-D Subsurface Model to Support Dam Design (Kyle Blakley, David Hayson & Michael Bartosek)
• Caught Between the Ocean and a Watershed, Designing Climate Change Adaptations for Two Coastal Water Supply Dams in Rhode Island (Andrea Judge, Joseph Famely & Robert Schultz)
• Dam, Analysis Modernization of Tools, Applications, Guidance, and Standardization (DAM-TAGS) Project (Sherry L. Hunt, Jarrett Wise, Michael Buser & Kade Shelton)*

Concurrent Session 33 – Federal Funding and Communications Initiatives
• Conceptual Dam Safety Improvement Program Financed through Corps Water Infrastructure Financing Program (Robert Beduhn, Jeremy Cook, Derek Gardels, Cris Parker, Aaron Snyder & Nathan Campbell)*
• Shifting the Focus to Proactive Community Investments through Collaborative Technical Assistance: A Western Maryland Case Study (Scott Bass, Preston Wilson & Rosemarie Bradley)*
• Case Study: A Small Hydroelectric Dam Navigating FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Program (Emily Campbell, John Barrett & Matt Bardol)*

Concurrent Session 34 – Challenges With Cutoff Wall Construction
• North Reservoir Dam Improvements – Rehabilitation of a High-Hazard Dam at Full Pool (Pete Nix)
• Design and Construction Challenges with a Multi-Level Seepage Cutoff Barrier (David Paiko & Kevin Aubry)
• East Branch Dam: Lessons Learned during Cutoff Wall Verification Drilling (Sarah J. Missenda & Audrey Wingate)*

Concurrent Session 35 – Advancements In Inundation Mapping, Part II
• Probabilistic Dam Breach Analysis for Pennsylvania's Largest Dam Breach Inundation Limits (Joseph Kudritz, Ed Kaminski & Brian Afek)*
• Safe Zone Determination under the Dam Failure Condition (John Dong, Nicolas Von Gersdorff, Matt Muto, Jeremy A Yager, Douglas Raigosa & Ziyad Duron)
• Replicating of Brumadinho Tailings Dam Failure: Using a Two-Phase Flow Model (Noemi Gonzalez Ramirez, Karen O'Brien & Jimmy S. O'Brien)*

Concurrent Session 36 – Decade Dam Failures Series Part III
• Thomson Canal Embankment Failure of 2012 (Eric Gross & Paul Kokoszka)*
• Santa Clara Dam: The hole problem (Everett Taylor)*

Concurrent Session 37 – Managing Rules And Regulations For Real Results
• Is Enforcement Possible? An Ohio Success Story (Mia Kannik, Dena Barnhouse & Cindy Frazzini)*
• WAIT!, I own a dam? And Regulatory is Filing a Lawsuit?! (James Guistina)*
• Incorporating Dam Inundation Risk within a FEMA RiskMAP Project: A Pilot Study (Tiffany Coleman & Thomas Song)*

Concurrent Session 38 – Top Tips And Tools In Construction Management
• Leveraging Construction Manager at Risk for Efficient Dam Safety Portfolio Delivery (Chad Davis, Eric Shafer, Jacob Bench & James Hilovsky)
• Reducing Risk, Schedule and Cost Via Construction Manager at Risk Delivery - Hargus Lake Dam (Pete Logsdon, Chad Davis, Eric Shafer, Brian Toombs,& Michael Garver)
• Case Studies in Construction Quality Control / Quality Assurance Methods for Seepage Cutoff Walls (Conrad Ginther, Jamey Rosen, Fred Chandler, Joseph Kula, John Barrett, Hector Davila & Veronica Barredo)

Poster & Lightning Talks
• Potential Pitfalls to Alternative Selection (Jason Boomer, Jennifer Williams & Brian Francis)*
• Dam Resilience Decision Support Toolbox (Jenn Richkus, Sean Cavanaugh, Leah Balkin, Conor Lewellyn & Ethan Robinson)
• Project Execution Risk vs Infrastructure Performance Risk: A Critical Distinction for Dam Safety (Derek Morley & Brian Hubel)*
• Uncertainty in Predicting Emergency Action Plans from Dam Failure (Al Souid)*
• Remote Underwater Surveys and Inspections: Exceeding Regulatory Requirements for Safety of Water Power Projects (Dusty Myers & Kristin Rotella)*
• Gate Structures – Snatched from Failure: How Many Ways Can a Radial Gate See Single Sided Hosting? (Travis Ford & Jarlene Ninive)
• Dirty Job: Court Street Dam Gate Chamber Cleaning (Jeff Blass, G. Michael McIntyre, Richard Walker & Roger Gural)
• Modification of Howard Prairie Dam (Brandt Demars)*
• Applicability of the Bayesian Dynamic Linear Model Method In Dam Behaviour Analysis and Comparison With the HST Method (Patrice Côté, Vincent Roy, Benjamin Miquel & Arnaud Meynadier)
• Re-evaluating Dam Spillway Design Using Current Data and Methods (Mark Schwartz, Emrah Karakullukcu & John Osterle)
• Alternative Delivery Methods – Lyman Lake Spillway (Nick Sullivan)*
• Leveraging Advanced Digital Modeling and AI Analytics for Arch Dam and Concrete Spillway Condition Assessments (Ryan Coppersmith)*
• Potential Applications of Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO to Enhance Integrated Water Management) (David Gutierrez)*
• Watershed Planning for the Rehabilitation of Beaver Creek 1: a Concerted Effort (J Ryan Collins, Mathew Lyons, Victoria Fort)*
• Larger than Maryland: Site-Specific PMP & PMF for a 14,000-Square Mile River Basin (Patrick Miles & Bill Kappel)*
• One Size Does Not Fit All – Evaluating Dam Breach Parameters for Small Urban Distribution Reservoirs (Jason Zhou, Priyanka K. Jain)
• Dam Breach Modeling and Fly Fishing Along the Trail of Lewis And Clark (Kevin Ruswick & Dustin Kaste)*
• Considerations for Addressing Floodplain Management for Dam Rehabilitation or Removal Projects (Edward G. Beadenkopf & Diana Castro)*
• Flood Awareness Presentations for Seniors, Northern Virginia, 2015-2019 (Charles E. Karpowicz)*
• Flood detention reservoirs: A new wave of dam construction in the United Kingdom (Alan J. Brown & Andy Courtnadge)
• Recent Updates of the Web-based Decision Support System for Water Infrastructural Security (DSS-WISE Lite) (Mohammad Al-Hamdan, Marcus McGrath & Paul Smith)*