PLT15 - Poster-Lightning Talks: How Did the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Polygamy, and the Environmental Protection Act Impact Teton Dam? A Political History of a Catastrophe
PLT20 - Poster-Lightning Talks: Matrix Approach for Assessing and Visualizing Vulnerabilities Downstream of Dams: Findings from a Utah Prototype Project
PLT21 - Poster-Lightning Talks: A Risk-Informed, Precipitation-Based Prioritization Framework for Mississippi Dams Using Rolling 30-Year Extremes (1970-2024)
Poster Presenter: Sarower Alam – Jackson State University
Poster Co-presenter: Audrika Nahian – Jackson State University
Hydrology & Hydraulics/Erosion of Materials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
PLT22 - Poster-Lightning Talks: The DamSure Approach to Communicating Changing Downstream Hazards
PLT33 - Poster-Lightning Talks: Risk-Informed Forecasting for Emergency Action Planning - Prado Dam Spillway Modification Project
Poster Presenter: Reuben Sasaki – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Poster Co-presenter: Samantha Hartke – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Hydrology & Hydraulics/Erosion of Materials
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
PLT34 - Poster-Lightning Talks: Hazard Potential Classifications- The need for additional technical guidance to support consistent application of FEMA 333 by the states.
PLT39 - Poster-Lightning Talks: Assessing the Generalization of a Physics-Guided Neural Network for Embankment Dam and Levee Applications
Poster Presenter: Audrika Nahian – Jackson State University
Geotechnical or Structural Issues
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
PLT40 - Poster-Lightning Talks: Lessons from Cyclone Ditwah's Impact on the Mahaweli Cascade System and Potential Remedies for Improving Infrastructure and Community Resilience
CS6A - Concurrent Session 06A: Bridges and Highways and DAMS?? Oh My!! The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Recent Experience with Risk Informed Prioritization of Their Dams
CS6C - Concurrent Session 06C: Before and After...Pre-Design and Post-Construction Risk Assessments to Inform Dam Rehabilitation and Adjust Dam Safety Priorities for a Portfolio of Dams
CS7C - Concurrent Session 07C: Automating the generation of HEC-RAS modeling for screening level breach analyses: a comparison with DSSWise, DST, and site-specific assessments
CS11C - Concurrent Session 11C: Detection of risk zones in dams and their foundations by use of combined geotechnical and geophysical site investigation methods
CS13A - Concurrent Session 13A: Reimagining Hazard Classification: Verifying Warning and Evacuation Assumptions using LifeSim & RCEM for Christmas Tree Dam
CS15C - Concurrent Session 15C: Smart Dam Operations Planning with OASIS: Leveraging a Reservoir and Watershed Management Tool to Reduce Spending on Dam Operation and Construction
CS17C - Concurrent Session 17C: Enhancing Public Safety and Connectivity through Dam Removal and Rehabilitation: Feasibility Study of the Sears and Steel Dams on the Lower Rock River.
CS18C - Concurrent Session 18C: From Breach to Impact to Action: Evaluating and Communicating Dam Failure Consequences in Complex, High-Hazard Coastal Systems
CS22A - Concurrent Session 22A: Mulholland's Misjudgments: The St. Francis Dam Breach of 1928 and the Contemporary Standard of Care for Dam Engineering
CS24A - Concurrent Session 24A: Briggs Dam - small dam, big dam problems, and an owners response to increase hydraulic capacity in the state of Michigan's evolving regulatory environment
CS24B - Concurrent Session 24B: Approach to Permitting to Meet an Aggressive Design and Construction Schedule for the Lake Conestee Dam Restoration Project
CS27A - Concurrent Session 27A: Leveraging Customized HEC-RAS Calculated Layers to Quickly Evaluate Downstream Hazard Increase due to Dam Breach across Multiple Storm Events and Design Alternatives
CS29B - Concurrent Session 29B: Varied Solutions to Common Challenges: Insights and Lessons Learned from BIA's Experience Rehabilitating Smaller High Hazard Embankment Dams throughout the U.S.
CS30A - Concurrent Session 30A: The 1966 Mina Plakalnitsa Tailings Dam Disaster of 1966: A Forgotten Tragedy with Enduring Lessons [DFIC Decade Series]
CS31B - Concurrent Session 31B: Garrison Dam Spillway Modification (Hydraulic White Paper Series): Physical Modeling of Chute and Stilling Basin Modification Alternatives, Part 1 - Hydraulic Sensitivity to Overlay Geometry
Presenter: Chad Vensel, P.E. – U.S. Amry Corps of Engineers - Risk Management Center
CS32A - Concurrent Session 32A: A Modern Flood Hazard Analysis for Oahe Dam, Integrating Upstream Regulation, Mixed-Population Hydrology and Paleoflood Information within a Competing-Risk Framework.
Presenter: Bryan Robinson, P.E. – US Army Corps of Engineers - Risk Management Center
Co-Presenter: Allen Avance, P.E. – US Army Corps of Engineers - Risk Management Center
Co-Presenter: Derek Kinder, P.E. – US Army Corps of Engineers - Risk Management Center
Hydrology & Hydraulics/Erosion of Materials
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
CS32B - Concurrent Session 32B: Integrated Probabilistic Flood and Dam Breach Hazard Analysis
CS37A - Concurrent Session 37A: Assessing Downstream Hazard with Geospatial Analytics: Helping the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Improve Emergency Preparedness and Hazard Classification at Scale