This course provides an introduction of HEC-RAS with applications to dam safety. The course provides a hands-on opportunity to use the program and resolve specific questions. The objective of this course is to review the basic principles of open channel hydraulics as they relate to the natural stream environment with application to dam safety. Bridges, culverts, and in-line structures will be discussed and both steady and unsteady flow modelin...

The safe operation of dams and appurtenant structures is paramount to the communities they serve. Instrumentation is an important tool of a comprehensive dam safety and performance monitoring program that can detect changes that might otherwise be missed by visual surveillance. The objectives of this course are to provide the participants with a general understanding of dam performance monitoring and its purpose; instrumentation and measuremen...

The European Commission has adopted a communication on Critical Infrastructure Protection in the fight against terrorism, enhancing European prevention, preparedness and response in the event of terrorist attacks involving critical infrastructures. The European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP) considers measures that will enhance the level of protection of infrastructure against external threats, with the Operator Secur...

For additional information and registration details, please contact Campbell Delahoyde. NASEO and NARUC will co-host a webinar to be held on December 11th from 3:00-4:30 pm ET focused on Energy Emergency and Crisis Communications, including energy eme rgency public messaging, rumor control, and public-private coordination. We are pleased to announce the following presenters will be speaking on the webinar and will be answering questions regard...

“Improving Energy Optimization in Buildings & Utilities through Big Data Capabilities” The 2020 Summit is a senior level educational forum that will focus on optimizing energy management through advanced data capabilities for utilities, C&I facilities and buildings, and institutional campuses. Tying together the groups is a future look to developing a Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Ecosystem. From near term energy mana...

The Distributed Energy Conference is the power generation industry’s foremost event about distributed generation, bringing together utility-scale electricity providers with power generators utilizing distributed energy resources (DERs), including commercial and industrial facilities, cooperatives, and private enterprise. The conference focuses on real-life applications of DERs, providing insight and information about renewable energy sou...

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...

It is imperative to capture 20 GT of carbon from the air in the next 20 years, and that will require contributions from all sectors including agriculture, industrial processes and direct air capture. What is the scorecard in each sector and how does each trajectory look? What are the drivers, and how can the pace of innovation and commercialization of new solutions be accelerated to scale rapidly enough to get to 20 GT in time? This webinar wi...

The Infrastructure Security and Resilience (ISR) Forum brings critical infrastructure owners and operators together with the public sector to discuss the threat landscape, current security posture, preparedness goals, and available resources. The Forum is hosted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Why attend? By the end of the ISR Forum, participants will: Gain a greater understanding of the threat landscape affecti...