World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Global Risks Report” identifies and analyzes a broad range of risk factors that may impact global economic development, ranging from climate change to technological failures to political unrest. Any of these risks alone would be challenging to cope with, but when they occur simultaneously and interact with one another the challenges can seem overwhelming. In a highly networked world risk managem...

Public-private partnerships are helping communities overcome longstanding infrastructure challenges. The P3 Government Conference offers tools and best practices for owners and developers evaluating upcoming project delivery needs. The 2019 program provides P3 training for public representatives interested in how alternative project delivery can be used to bridge resource gaps and move major capital projects forward. Expanding on the original...

Potential failure modes analyses (PFMA) was first used in dam safety over twenty years ago and although thousands of PFMA workshops have been conducted since it was first introduced, the use and application of PFMAs is still mostly limited to larger federal agencies and occasionally by others on larger projects. PFMA is a tool and a framework to evaluate dam and levee safety. It has fundamentally changed the way many now approach assessing and...

This webinar will review the 1938 construction failure of the upstream slope of Fort Peck Dam, Montana. The failure began at about 1:15 PM on September 22, 1938 as the construction work had progressed to within 20 feet of the final dam crest elevation. One hundred eighty men were working in the area. Thirty four men were injured. Eight men lost their lives, six of whom were never found and are buried somewhere in the dam. As a result of this s...

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...

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...

WaterPro is the annual conference of the National Rural Water Association and is designed to bring together water and wastewater utility systems – large and small, municipal and rural – for sessions in operations, management, boardsmanship and governance. Learn new skills; Upgrade current ones The Water Industry is always in flux — innovative technology, new regulations or changing funding formulas. The WaterPro Conference o...

On behalf of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, we invite you to join us in Pittsburgh for the Council of State Governments (CSG) Eastern Regional Conference (ERC) 59th Annual Meeting and Regional Policy Forum, July 28-31, 2019. Discover 21st century Pittsburgh, a city which balances its historic role in our nation’s history with its role in developing the innovations of tomorrow. Meet with your peers in the largest gathering of state of...

How much water is your utility losing to leakage, customer meter error or water theft? How can your utility quantify these water losses or identify the cost burdens the losses impart upon the system?Water utilities recognize not only the need to regularly account for their supplies but also the importance of trained personnel in the auditing and validation processes. This seminar, facilitated by experts from the AWWA Water Loss Control Committ...

The conference program will focus on issues of importance to dam owners, government officials and engineers in the west region with applicability to the greater dam and levee safety community as well. Make plans to join us at the Westin Hotel in Westminster, CO for the ASDSO West Regional Conference March 25-27, 2019.