Webinar: Introduction to Addressing Inadequate Conveyance Capacity at Dams

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The most common deficiency at dams in North America is inadequate spillway capacity. Inadequate spillway capacity can result in overtopping of a dam during flood events. This is especially a concern for embankment dams where overtopping of the dam embankment can cause breaching of the dam and uncontrolled release of the impounded water. This failure mode accounts for more than 40 percent of recent dam failures. A broad overview of the many approaches, including state-of-the-art technologies, to effectively modify existing dams to meet current spillway capacity requirements will be presented. The various approaches will be illustrated with photographs from recently modified dams and case studies.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Paul G. Schweiger, P.E., CFM
Vice President
Gannett Fleming, Inc.

Paul G. Schweiger, P.E. is a Vice President of Gannett Fleming and Manager of the Firm’s Dams and Hydraulics Section in Camp Hill. He has over 31 years of consulting engineering experience during which time he has worked on hundreds of dam projects providing the full range of dam engineering services. Mr. Schweiger is a certified Failure Modes Analysis facilitator and a regular ASDSO Dam Owner Workshop instructor. He has published over 40 technical papers and technical manuals, given many presentations on a wide range of dam engineering topics, and is a frequent speaker at national dam safety conferences and specialty technical seminars. He also developed and co-taught the NRCS SITES course for evaluating the stability and integrity of auxiliary spillways and the ASDSO Inspection and Assessment of Dams course. He has served on several dam safety committees and work groups including: the National Dam Safety Review Board, the NRCS Study Work Group to evaluate design tools for roller-compacted concrete stepped spillways and embankment armoring, and the FEMA work group for establishing guidelines for the hydraulic safety of dams and managed the FEMA study to convey lessons learned from dam failures and incidents.. He is currently serving as an expert hydrology and hydraulics engineer on an Independent External Peer Review panel for several United States Army Corps of Engineers DSAC I dam projects and levee projects.

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