This seminar provides comprehensive instruction in inspection and evaluation techniques for dams. The principles, concepts and procedures taught will be readily adaptable to any organization conducting dam inspections and evaluating their compliance with current design standards. Participants learn about a variety of dam types and their appurtenances, the function of typical dam features, and common dam failure modes and the conditions that ca...

Join us on December 10, 2024, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Probable Maximum Precipitation: What Is It, How Is It Calculated, and How Do I Apply It? This webinar will provide detailed discussions related to the development of Probable Maximum Precipitation and its application for dam safety. Detailed information will be provided regarding the history of PMP development and its use in dam safety design, the current standard of practice fo...

Join us on November 12, 2024 from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Best Practices in Floodplain Management Associated With Dam Safety Management and Dam Rehabilitation. This webinar provides an overview of the history, recent trends, and best practices in floodplain management as relates to dam safety management, with a special focus on dam rehabilitation and FEMA’s High Hazard Potential Dam (HHPD) Rehabilitation Grant Program. Learning ob...

Registration is Closed This course is intended as an introductory course for persons who have had at least one course in reinforced concrete design. The course will provide a thorough overview of the fundamentals of specifying the fresh and hardened properties of concrete mixes; the review of applicable codes for concrete hydraulic structures; the design philosophy and methodology of reinforced concrete hydraulic structures; and issues associa...

This course serves as an introduction and guidance on construction oversight and inspections associated with the construction or modification of a dam and appurtenant structures. Learning objectives attendees will receive from this course: Organization, communication, and the roles, responsibilities, and authority of project team members. Emergency operations for dam and levee failures and incidents. Importance of dam construction documentatio...

Join us on October 8, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Tools for Designing and Assessing Spillways. Spillways are complex hydraulic structures with materials and geometries that are often tailored to unique site conditions. As such, the analysis associated with the design and assessment of spillways needs to be commensurate with the complexity of the structure and the risk posed by the structure. Some of the complex hydraulic issues often c...

Join us on September 10, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Hydraulic Tour of Standard NRCS Inlet Risers. This webinar will describe USDA-NRCS riser inlets for watershed dams. USDA-ARS research on various riser configurations informed the current standard NRCS riser design. Other NRCS inlet risers exist for specific design situations. Maintenance concerns for continued optimum riser performance will be discussed. Finally, this webinar will ex...

Join us on August 13, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Using the Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) for Evaluation of Dams and Levees. This webinar will comprehensively cover the Cone Penetrometer Test (CPT) from the most basic ideas to advanced topics. It will be engaging, interesting, and enjoyable to watch. The most important concepts will be fully described. There will be numerous examples of state-of-the-art evaluations. Stratigraphy evaluat...

The objective of this course will be to provide a comprehensive presentation of the significant principles and concepts of soil mechanics to the participants. The material will be presented with emphasis on the basic soil mechanics principles prerequisite to further study for the design or rehabilitation of earth embankment dams. This is a basic-level course intended as an introduction for those with minimal to moderate knowledge or experience...

Join us on July 9, from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern for Facilitating Low-Head Dam Removals and Improving Aquatic Resource Restoration Outcomes. Many low-head dams no longer serve their original purpose and their existence often poses a public safety risk and continues to have negative impacts on aquatic resources. This webinar will focus on effective strategies for low head dam removal and aquatic resource restoration in Pennsylvania over the l...