Foreword
The theme of the 28th USSD Conference was The Sustainability of Experience — Investing in the Human Factor. The Conference technical program was organized by several USSD Committees under the leadership of Douglas D. Boyer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The Theme addressed challenges facing the profession in training and transferring knowledge and judgment from soon-to-be-retiring experts to eager younger professionals who will be our future leaders.
The Conference Technical Sessions and associated Workshops on Dam Failures/Incidents and Dam Decommissioning provided an opportunity for dam engineers, owners, operators, environmental managers and interest groups to share and discuss best practices and new technologies in design, construction, rehabilitation, monitoring and surveillance, operation, safety, decommissioning and risk management.
A total of 81 papers are included in the 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 28th Annual Meeting and Conference, Portland General Electric.
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 the Proceedings.
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