Conference Schedule

Workshops**- AM half day 

Sharpen, Speak, Succeed: The Proactive Professional’s Toolbox – Part II

Technical Exchange Levees Workshop

Legacy Lecture over lunch

Dr. David Bowles

Workshops**- AM half day

Dam Failure Emergency Action Plan Tabletop Exercise and Scenarios Workshop

Enhancing Watershed Sediment Management using HEC-HMS

Workshops**- PM half day

Aging Dam Infrastructure – Decommission or Rehabilitate Considering Economic, Climate Change and Sustainability Factors

Field Tour*/**

Kansas City Levee Project

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is currently constructing the $529M KC Levees mega civil works project along the Kansas River in Kansas City, KS that will significantly reduce flood risk to 30,000 people and $10B of infrastructure, including a nationally critical transportation, distribution, and rail hub. The project includes two major aspects – structural improvements or full replacement of 13 pump stations and an average 5-foot raise to 17 miles of existing levees and floodwalls including 12 stoplog or sandbag closure structures within one of the largest rail hubs in the nation.  Tour participants will have an opportunity to visit various components of the project including pump stations, levee and floodwall improvements, and a stoplog closure structure.