Dam Research;

Needs and Funding;

Boulder

Sept. 27-28, 2007

1 Participants. 1

2 Agenda. 2

3 Flip Charts Notes. 3

4 Consolidated Dam Safety Research Needs List 3

5 Report 6

6 Current Dam Related Research. 6

7 Press Release. 6

8 Follow Up Tasks. 7

9 Contact 7

 

1 Participants

Federal, State

Baals, John

BOR

Becker, Brian

BOR

Nuss, Larry

BOR

Guttierez, David

California Dept. of Water

Schultz, Mark

California Dept. of Water

Allerton, Bill

FERC

Brand, Bruce

FERC

Hall, Robert

USACE

Private Sector

Charlwood, Robin

Consultant

Ehasz, Joseph

Washington Group

France, John

URS

Ghanaat, Yusof

Quest Structures

Johnson, Daniel

GEI; USSD

Vazinkhoo, Saman

BC Hydro

Nguyen, Phuong

Hydro Quebec

Tarbox, Glenn

MWH

Tjoumas, Gus

CEATI

Vazinkhoo, Saman

BC Hydro

Yen, John

Southern California Edison

Academia

Bowles, David

Utah State University

Duron, Zeyad

Harvey-Mudd

Ko, Hon-Yim

University of Colorado

Leger, Pierre

Polytechnic of Montreal

Saouma, Victor

University of Colorado

Suarez, Luis

Univ. of Puerto-Rico

 

2 Agenda

Thursday Sept. 27:

 


Session I: Introduction

 

8:30-8:35         Welcoming remarks, Prof. Sture, Vice Chancellor for Research

8:35-8:40         Welcoming remarks, Saouma

8:40-8:50         Overview, Nuss

8:50-9:00         Opening remarks, Charlwood

 


Session II Presentations on policy, practice and current projects

Moderator: Charlwood, Recorder: Nuss

 

9:00-9:10         Bureau of Reclamation,                                     Nuss

9:10-9:20         US Army Corps of Engineers                            Hall (Audio-Conference)

9:20-9:30         National Dam Safety Program                           France, Becker

9:30-9:40         Interagency Committee on Dam Safety,             Allerton, Becker

9:40-9:50         CEATI                                                             Tjoumas

9:50-10:00       Association of State Dam Safety Officials          France

10:00-10:20     Break

10:20-10:30     United States Society on Dams                         Johnson, Ehasz, Bowles

10:30-10:40     California Department of Water Resources        Guttierez, Schultz

10:40-10:50     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission            Brand, Allerton

10:50-11:00     Canadian perspective                                        Phuong, Vazinkhoo, Zielinski

11:00-11:10     University Perspective                                       Duron, Ko, Leger, Suarez, Saouma

11:10-11:20     Utility Companies perspective                           Yen

11:20-11:30     Consultants perspective                                     Ehasz, France, Tarbox

                                                                                                 Ghanaat

11 :30-12 :00   Discussions I

12:00-1:00       Lunch (on premises)

1:00-2:00         Discussion II

Session III Reports on Activities

Moderator: Duron

 

2:00-2:20         Seismic Working Group                                    Charlwood

2:20:2:40          USSD/ICOLD (Aging)                                     Charlwood

2:40-3:00         FEMA (Seismology, Embankments)                 Hall (Audio-Conference)

3:00-3:20         NEES                                                              Saouma

Session IV Research Identification

 

3:00-4:00         Summary of key research needs                        (Charlwood, Tjoumas)

4:00-4:30         Summary of current research funding                 (Saouma, Duron)

 


4:30-5:15         Tour of laboratory facilities, centrifuge, NEES laboratories.

Informal No-Host Reception/Dinner

 

Friday Sept. 28

                                                                       

Session V Research Support

Moderator: Guttierez

 

8:15-8:45         Sites and Facilities to perform research              (Universities, others)

8::45-9:00        Peer Review of Research                                  (USSD, others)

9:00-9:30         Discussion

9:30-10:00       Break  

 


Session VI Strategic Planning

Moderators; Charlwood and Saouma

 

10:00-10:30     Strategic Development

10:30-11:00     Action Items

11:00-12:00     Drafting of the “Boulder Declaration on Dam Safety”

12:00               Adjourn

 

1 Flip Charts Notes

Pictures of notes recorded by Robin Charlwood on the board can be found here.

2 Consolidated Dam Safety Research Needs List

The following list (compiled by Bruce Brand on the basis of collected information) represents an attempt to consolidate several previous lists generated by dam engineering organizations.   Larry Nuss of the Bureau of Reclamation compiled input from the Bureau of Reclamation, (BREC) the Corps of Engineers (CoE), and the United States Society of Dams (USSD).  The list that Nuss complied was actually 3 lists, representing the research needs submitted by the above noted agencies, without coordination amongst themselves.  Because of this, there is some redundancy in the Nuss list that this list attempts to consolidate. 

In addition the work of  Nuss and his committee of reviewers, lists of research needs put forth by the Interagency Committee of Dams (ICODs), the National Dam Safety Review Board (NDSRB), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) are also included. 

The research needs in these lists are listed numerically. In the case of the NUSS list and the NDSRB list, the topics are listed in descending order of importance.  The prioritization of theses lists was done by the generators of the lists, not by the compiler.  In the case of ICODs and FERC, no attempt was made to establish a prioritization because FERC and ICODS did not assign priorities.

When a item identified by one of these agencies coincides with an item in the another list, this is pointed out by the appearance of the item number in the respective agencies’ column on the right side of the spreadsheet.  In addition, when there is redundancy between two or three agencies, this is pointed out in a similar manor. 

For example “Validate soil constitutive models” was identified in the Nuss list, and was also appeared as item 3 in the ICODs list and item 6 in the FERC list. There has been numerous priority lists in the past. Larry has summarized them in this, and Bruce will consolidate and finalize it.

 

 

NDSRB

ICODS

FERC

NUSS

 

List from National Dam Safety Review Board

 

 

 

 

1

Develop a marketing plan and outreach strategy to promote the significance of EAP’s .

1

 

 

 

2

Guidance on the design and construction of overtopping protection of earth embankments

2

 

3

 

3

Documentation of the hydraulic design criteria for embankment stepped spillways

3

 

 

 

4

Development of the historical, regional databases of storms and floods

4

 

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5

Guidelines for the evaluation of the hydrologic safety of dams

5

 

 

 

6

Development of regional hydrology parameters

6

 

 

 

7

Improved technology transfer of GIS, NEXRAD, and meteorological data

7

7

 

 

8

Guidance on methodologies to address snowmelt contributions to the inflow design flood

8

9

 

 

9

Guidelines for state utilization of standard and consistent approaches to inundation mapping

9

 

 

 

10

Additional research on breach parameters, the results of breaches, and inundation mapping

10

 

 

 

11

Guidelines on acceptable/tolerable risk criteria need development

11

 

 

 

12

Guidance on performing failure mode identification, including a list of failure modes for outlets works

12

 

 

 

13

Extension of frequency curves to rare Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP)

13

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