Conference Agenda
Kansas Dam Safety Conference 2010
February 8-10
Grand Prairie Hotel
Hutchinson
Tuesday, February 9
General Session
8:15 a.m. Opening Remarks
8:20 a.m. 
Kansas Water Topics- David Barfield, Chief Engineer
9:00 a.m. Karin Jacoby, National Levee Program Committee
9:45 a.m. Break Time and Vendor Showcase
General Session
10:15 a.m. Georgia Floods of 2009- Gregg Hudock, Golder
11:00 a.m. Mission Lake Dredging Project - Bo Douglas, Dredge America
Noon Luncheon with presenter Kirk Hoeffner, KDHE "Sinkholes in Hutchinson"
1:30 p.m. Risk MitigationHAZUS-MH for Dam Inundation- Michael Eddings, E and E ConsultantsRISK MapRISK Based Dam Safety Program- Wade Anderson, Tulsa District Corps of Engineers
1:30 p.m. Extended Session
Plant and Animal Impacts
1:30 p.m. Modification and Repair
Levee Pipeline Abandonment Project- Jeffrey Humenik, EMRProtection of earth levees from waves using floating wave barriers- Daniel Wren, ARS
Plants as an Alternative to RipRap- Kim Austin, Terracon
3:00 p.m. Break time and Vendor show case
3:30 p.m. Extended Session
NRCS Design TopicsUse and Design of Plastic Pipe on Embankment Dams
Wade Anderson. Dam Safety Program Manager/Geotechnical Engineer
US Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District
3:30 p.m. Levees
Floodplain 101- DWR Staff
Wichita PAL- AMEC
Levee Mapping- FEMA
3:30 p.m. Case Studies
Empire Colorado Dam Rehabilitation- Applegate
Sand Dams for Small Scale Irrigation in Kenya- Herschel George, Kansas State UniversitySea Ranch Dam Repairs- Tom MacDougall, RJH
5:30 p.m. Evening Social and Vendor showcase
Wednesday, February 10
8:30 a.m. PermittingIllegal Unpermitted Dams
Design Reports
Changes Roundtable
8:30 a.m. EAP for Dams Seminar
Introduction
Failures
Failure Modes
8:30 a.m. Stream Obstructions SeminarKaw River Project- Mike Calwell, Friends of the Kaw
Stream bank Stabilization- Phil Balch
Natural Gas Pipelines-EMR
10:00 a.m. Break time and vendor showcase
10:30 a.m. Watershed TopicsHabitat Assessment Mitigation- Chris Mammolati
Easements- Paul Gallagher, NRCSModel Ordinances and Zoning- Herb Graves, SAKW
10:30 a.m. EAP for Dams Seminar
Presented by Larry Caldwell, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
Elements of a High Hazard EAP
Using the EAP
Reading a breach map
10:30 a.m. Stream Obstructions Seminar
Zebra Mussels in KansasStreambank Stabilization: Environmental Permitting- Susan Metzger, Kansas Water Office
Cheney WRAPS
Noon Luncheon with presenter Chuck Banks
1:30 p.m. Dam Safety Field Trip - 
Equus Beds Aquifer Storage Recovery in Wichita
1:30 p.m. Emergency Action Planning for Dams- Tabletop Exercise
1:30 p.m. Stream Obstructions Seminar- Permitting and Regulations404 Permits- Corps of Engineers
Action Permits- Kansas Wildlife and Parks
Construction Erosion- KDHE
3:30 p.m. Stream Obstructions Seminar- Rules and Regulations ChangesReview process
Changes
Questions