Many dams and levees have embankment drains, structure underdrains, and relief wells to control seepage through and beneath the dam and piezometers to monitor the performance of these features. Dam and levee owners, managers, and maintenance staff may be uncertain about the function of these features and what maintenance is required. This webinar will summarize seepage principles and terminology in layman's terms and describe the purposes and...

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 failed during spillway discharge, and several days later the emergency spillway was activated for the first time in the half-century history of the dam, resulting in rapid and severe erosion of the hillside below the emergency spillway weir, and prompting precautionary evacuation of nearly 190,000 downstream r...

ERUdyne has established our Drone Flight School to fill a gap in commercial drone operations training for people that want to build, or switch to, a career using drones to impact safety and security of our Nation's infrastructure, including crisis management and disaster response and recovery support. We teach our students about the business application of drone usage, how the data drones provide is accessed and utilized, and the industry pote...

Hurricane season is now through October. With last year's series of natural disasters in Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the crippling winter storms in the Northeast, is your organization fully prepared to cope with a catastrophic event? Learn about New COOP Requirements, Federal Government Policy, Best & Proven Practices and what they mean for your organization. The Federal Government’s continuity requirements are...

This course focuses on writing criteria for antiterrorism, continuity-of-operations (COOP) and resiliency, information security, physical security, operational security plans and operating procedures to meet Federal, State and local 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 le...

With the latest series of natural disasters in Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the crippling winter storms in the Northeast, has your organization realized it was not fully prepared to cope with a catastrophic event? Is your preparation adequate to maintain continuity of your government functions? Learn from others including the Director of the Department of Agriculture National Finance Center whose proven leadership success...

Every organization needs a business continuity plan to protect its critical operations, resources and services in the event of unexpected disasters and business disruptions. At the time of a disaster everyone in the organization relies on the business continuity plan to ensure continuity of business and to restore normal operating conditions. It is critically essential to build a plan that is reliable, comprehensive, and effective for any busi...

With the latest series of natural disasters in Texas, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, has your organization realized it was not fully prepared to cope with a disaster? Is your preparation adequate to maintain continuity of your government functions? Learn from others including the Director of the Department of Agriculture National Finance Center who has proven leadership and success in implementing a successful COOP plan and co...

Physical Security includes five components; detection, assessment, command and control (policy & procedures), response and engagement. Sadly, most of us in the security vertical focus on only one or two of these components and miss the others. These five elements must be intertwined and seamlessly integrated. If they all aren’t addressed, the “bad guy” wins. In this session we’ll outline what each component is, how...

Based on the assumption that preventive measures must be in place to be effective, students learn 25 mitigation strategies that when successfully applied reduce the impact of terrorist attack. We examine the current state of terrorism in the United States, its evolving nature and the future use of weapons of mass destruction. A variety of options are explored for addressing the most common manmade threats we face today and for the foreseeable...