Foreword
The theme of the 24th USSD Conference was Working Rivers - Balanced Resource
Management. The Conference technical program was organized by the USSD
Committees on Construction and Rehabilitation; Environmental Effects; Hydraulics
of Dams; and Public Awareness.
The Conference addressed how a working river meets a wide
range of water resources objectives in a highly integrated manner. Topics for
discussion included the management of reservoirs; operation of navigation systems
in conjunction with storage reservoirs; construction, rehabilitation,
operation, maintenance and monitoring of all related facilities; and
consideration of economic, social, and environmental concerns, including
decommissioning.
A total of 53 papers are included in this Proceedings.
Authors include specialists with broad experience from government agencies,
utilities, academia, water districts, consulting firms and private industry.
The Conference Organizing Committee extends thanks and
appreciation to the Host of The 24th Annual Meeting and Conference, the Corps of Engineers.
Special thanks are also extended to the Committee Members
who selected the abstracts and reviewed the technical papers, and to the
authors who prepared the papers included in this Proceedings.
Contents
Dam Removal
Dam Removal: What Is It All About?
George W. Annandale,
Engineering and Hydrosystems Inc.
Watershed-Scale Assessment of Environmental Impacts and
Hazards of Dams
Karen I. Pelto,
Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game; Michael
D. Merrill, Natural Resources Conservation Service; and Brian E. Graber, Massachusetts
Department of Fish and Game
Issues Contributing to the Decision to Remove the
Milltown Dam
Peter Nielsen, Missoula
County; and Dennis Gathard, G&G Associates
Engineering Analysis Techniques for Condit Dam Removal
Dennis Gathard,
G&G Associates
A Small Embankment Dam Breach Case Study: Adapting to
Unexpected and Adverse Field Conditions
David M. Leone,
GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.; Kevin Flood,
Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut;
and William H. Hover, GZA
GeoEnvironmental, Inc.
Dam Removal Alternatives for Wiswall Dam
Robert C. Patev
and Adam W. Burnett, Corps of
Engineers
An Evaluation of the Impacts of the Removal of the
Finlayson Dam
C. Richard Donnelly
and Larry King, Acres International;
and Mike Phillips,
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Removing Matilija Dam: Opportunities and Challenges for Ventura
River Restoration
Mark H. Capelli,
National Marine Fisheries Service
Prediction of Sediment Impacts Associated with Dam
Removal
Blair Greimann,
Bureau of Reclamation
A Reclamation Overview of Dam Removals for River
Restoration
Thomas E. Hepler,
Bureau of Reclamation
River Management
A Comparative Study for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration
Caused by Hydropower Dams
Yong
Huang, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale
Youghiogheny River
Lake Storage Reallocation for
Downstream Water Supply
Werner C. Loehlein,
Corps of Engineers
Reservoir Release Forecast Model for Flood Operation of
the Folsom Project Including Pre-Releases
David S. Bowles and Sanjay S. Chauhan, Utah
State University;
J. Dean Mathias, BridgerTech, Inc.;
and Joseph D. Countryman, MBK
Engineers
Comprehensive Water Management
D. K. Dhar, National
Hydroelectric Power Corporation, India
Water Level Management for Ecosystem Restoration on the Upper
Mississippi River System
Kevin J. Landwehr,
Corps of Engineers
Use of the OASIS Model in Developing Reservoir Operations
Agreements Among Various Interest Groups
Paul Shiers, PB
Power Inc., Brian McCrodden,
HydroLogics, Inc., and Mary Tibbetts,
PB Power Inc.
A Balanced Approach to Managing Reservoirs on Rivers
George W. Annandale,
Engineering and Hydrosystems Inc.; Farhed
Shah, University of Connecticut;
and Alessandro Palmieri and Ariel Dinar, The World Bank
The Kaskaskia Flood of 2002: A Case Study on Cooperation
and Conflicting Project Purposes
Joan Stemler and Jackie Taylor, Corps of Engineers
Upper Mississippi River System
Environmental Management Program
Roger A. Perk,
Corps of Engineers; and Daniel P. Miller,
Stanley Consultants, Inc.
Reoperating Lake
Wohlford: A Rebalancing of the
Demands on an Urban WorkingRiver
Kevin L. Derby
and Giles Pettifor, EDAW, Inc.
Mississippi River Headwaters
Reservoir Operations Plan Evaluation Study
Terry R. Zien,
Corps of Engineers
River Sediment
Micro Modeling Success Stories, 1994-2003
Robert D. Davinroy,
Corps of Engineers
Repetitive Dredging on the Upper Mississippi
River Resolved with Environmental River Engineering
David C. Gordon, Robert D. Davinroy, Claude N. Strauser, David R. Busse, Leonard L. Hopkins and Brian
Johnson, Corps of Engineers
Navigation and Environmental Design of the Mississippi
River at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri,
Miles 176.0 to 166.0
Dawn M. Lamm,
Corps of Engineers
Hydraulic Structures
Some Dos and Don'ts with Gates in Hydropower Plants
B.T.A. Sagar,
Consultant
The Dillon Dam Spillway Repairs - Denver Water's Stainless
Steel Spillway
Jim Weldon, Denver
Water; and Sal Todaro, URS
Corporation
Safety and Fish Passage for Low-Head Dams
Aaron W. Buesing,
Corps of Engineers
Rehabilitation of the Spillway Gates at Mactaquac
Hydroelectric Station
John B. Codrington,
Acres International; Tom H. May and Phillip A. Gilks,
NB Power; and Dan D. Curtis, Acres International
Inspection, Maintenance and Monitoring for Service and/or
Emergency Spillways
Dan Johnson and Craig Harris, MWH Americas
Rehabilitation of Distressed Gates and Equipment of
Rihand Dam
S.K.G. Pandit and
R. Jeyaseelan, Central Water
Commission, India
Sardis Lake
Spillway Backfill Drain Replacement
Eric G. Woerner
and Al Hitchcock, Jr., Corps of
Engineers
Hydro Development
Modeling Multiple Objectives for the Savannah
River with HEC-ResSim
Joan D. Klipsch, Stanley L. Simpson
and Daniel J. Barcellos, Corps of
Engineers
El Platanal Hydroelectric and Irrigation Project - Perú
Renzo B. Valentino,
ARPL/Cementos Lima; and Pedro C. Repetto, URS Corporation
Structural Stability Analyses Required for Low Head
Hydropower Development at Smithland Lock and Dam on the Ohio River
Melvin L. Koleber
and Alexander Bihlmayer, VA Tech
Hydro USA
Rehabilitation/Reconstruction
McAlpine Lock Replacement: Concrete and RCC Work Together
Randall P. Bass,
Portland Cement Association; and David
E. Kiefer, Corps of Engineers
Tom Miller Dam: One Century of Service and Working on a
Second
Gregor Forbes,
Lower Colorado River Authority; and Marion
L. Boyd, John S. Wolfhope and Murphy H. Parks, Freese and Nichols,
Inc.
Construction of the Braddock Dam Using Innovative
Float-In Technology
Brian H. Greene
and Carol L. Tasillo, Corps of
Engineers
Narrows Dam Deck Slot Cutting & Tainter Gate
Remediation
Paul F. Shiers, Anthony W. Plizga and Marc D. Buratto, PB Power; Mark Gross, APGI, Yadkin Division; and John Lyon, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
A Review of Corps of Engineers Levee Seepage Practices in
the Central California Flood Control System
John R. Hess and George L. Sills, Corps of Engineers
Planning, Design, and Construction of Sinnissippi Dam
W. Robert Ivarson,
HNTB; and Richard Gosch, Arlan R. Juhl and William J. Schuck, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Directional Drilling Under Levees, St. Louis District
Corps of Engineers Experience
Patrick J. Conroy,
Corps of Engineers
The Rehabilitation of Vermont's Waterbury Dam's Seepage
Control Components by Innovative Schemes
David Washington,
New Jersey Institute of Technology; and Daniel
Rodriguez, Corps of Engineers
Welland Canal
Hydraulic Conversion Project
Jerry Westermann,
Acres International; and Stephen Kwok,
St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation
Seismic Issues
Evaluation of Intake
Towers Using the Capacity Spectrum
Method
Luis E. Suarez,
University of Puerto Rico; Enrique E.
Matheu, Louisiana State University; Leonardo
Cocco, University of Puerto Rico; and Anjana Chudgar, Corps of
Engineers
Development of Seismic Design Criteria for the Kentucky
Lock Addition Project
Manoshree Sundaram
and Jason E. Hedien, MWH
Influence of Ground Motion Characteristics on Deformation
Analysis of Embankment Dams
Donald E. Yule,
Corps of Engineers; Michael H. Beaty,
California Department of Water Resources, and Enrique E. Matheu, Louisiana State University
Environmental
Green River Lake, Kentucky
- Sustainable River Project
William J. Byron, Jr.,
Corps of Engineers
A Collaborative Process for Developing Flow
Recommendations to RestoreRiver
and Estuary Ecosystems
Brian D. Richter and
Andrew T. Warner, The Nature
Conservancy; Judith Meyer, University
of Georgia; Kimberly A. Lutz, The Nature Conservancy; and Leroy G. Crosby and William
G. Bailey, Corps of Engineers
Designing Fish Passage Facilities for Low-Head Dams on
Rivers in the Northeastern United States
Paul G. Schweiger
and Donald P. Roarabaugh, Gannett
Fleming, Inc.; and Dilip Mathur,
Normandeau Associates, Inc.
Hydraulic Micro Model Sedimentation Study of the Middle Mississippi
River at BuffaloIsland
Jasen L. Brown,
Corps of Engineers
River Management in a Changing Environment
Ross D. Zhou and C. Richard Donnelly, Acres International
River Restoration
River Restoration Downstream of Dams
Troy D. Thompson,
Ecological Resource Consultants; Jennifer
M. Wulforst and George W. Annandale,
Engineering and Hydrosystems Inc.; David
J. Blauch, Ecological Resource Consultants; and William D. Linfield, Town of Silverthorne
Side Channel Creation on the Mississippi River
at Herculaneum, Missouri,
Miles 156.3 to 149.7
Michael Rodgers,
Corps of Engineers
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