CARES Act Funding has started flowing to state and local governments, and municipalities are working out how best to leverage this funding to address a wide range of needs, from transitioning services to virtual and online to communicating critical information to local constituents. And the emergency nature of CARES Act – as well as pending additional stimulus funding – is forcing government leaders to make decisions about how to a...

While there have been many notable dam failures throughout the past century, the failure of Teton Dam in 1976 led to significant changes at the Bureau of Reclamation, in the Federal Government, and in the dam engineering industry. This course will provide information about the dam, the failure, ensuing investigations, and the changes that were implemented in the years that followed. Five Learning Objectives of This Course: The failure of Teton...

Prevention of and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents The Eugene Police Department, Eugene Springfield Fire, and Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) invite you to attend a FREE training opportunity. Continuing Education Units: 0.4 The PRSBI course focuses on understanding the history and threat of suicide bombing to the United States as well as suicide bomber methodologies. Date: March 6, 2020 Time: 8:00 AM – 12:0...

Back for a second year, ORR Protection is excited to announce the 2020 Mission Critical Fire Protection Regional Conference Series. Local experts will speak on topics specific to your city and the surrounding region. There will also be a help desk on-site to walk you through your personal fire protection strategy. We are also excited to announce that for 2020 we will also have many technical experts from MCFP manufacturers on-site to present t...

A three-day workshop intensely focused on writing criteria for antiterrorism, continuity-of-operations (COOP) and resiliency, information security, physical security, operational security plans and operating procedures to meet government requirements. What should be included in each type of plan is discussed in detail. Students will learn how to translate company policy into the five functional areas of every good plan. They will also learn ho...

From big cities to small towns, no government is immune to ransomware. Cybercriminals have their eyes set on local government. How are local municipalities addressing the ever-growing challenges? Join this informative webinar with FireEye, Collier IT, and Carahsoft where you'll learn how state and local government leaders can protect their most important assets from ransomware attacks and what to do in the event they experience one. Register n...

(VAR) Vulnerability Assessments and Risk Analysis Methodologies – A variety of five qualitative and quantitative methodologies are discussed in detail. Students will learn the differences between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. They will use a variety of methodologies by evaluating single or multiple buildings and critical infrastructure nodes. Three full days of field evaluations assessing lighting, electric systems, drinkin...

In the last forty years, dam safety professionals have recognized the importance of preparing emergency actions plans (EAPs) as an effective tool to minimize the consequences of dam failures. In the last 15 years, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) was established and the Incident Command System (ICS) has become a more important emergency response tool. As a result, EAP formats, procedures for testing dam EAPs and training personne...

Internal erosion causes about half of all failures of water-retaining earth embankment dams. Similar statistics apply to levees. Internal erosion occurs when the hydraulic loads imposed by water seeping through the pores or flowing through cracks and openings in the soils in embankments and their foundations generate erosive forces sufficient to overcome the resistance to erosion of those soils. The knowledge of internal erosion processes has...

At a height of 770 feet, Oroville Dam is the tallest dam in the United States. On February 7, 2017, a section of the concrete chute slab of the service spillway at Oroville Dam failed during spillway discharge. Several days later, as the California Department of Water Resources was evaluating and managing discharges through the damaged service spillway during a large rainfall event, the emergency spillway activated for the first time in the pr...