Join the United States Society on Dams (USSD) Concrete Dams Technical Committee for a two-day, in-person workshop and tour exploring the evolution, design, construction, and future of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) in dams and hydraulic structures.

The course is a comprehensive review of dam and levee safety risk analysis

This two-day, in-person workshop provides an integrated overview of field and laboratory methods for characterizing foundation soils and waste residuals, with emphasis on the information needed to support geotechnical evaluation and design of dams, earth structures, and tailings or waste-storage facilities. Leading experts from academia and industry will discuss laboratory characterization, geophysical methods, cone penetration testing (CPT), vane shear testing, sampling quality and disturbance, emerging approaches such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and advanced CPT interpretation, and practical case studies.

This two-day workshop provides participants with practical knowledge and tools to identify, assess, and manage public safety and security risks at dam facilities. Through classroom instruction and real-world examples, attendees will learn how to develop effective safety and security programs, conduct risk assessments, and implement mitigation strategies. The workshop concludes with a half-day technical tour of Morgan Falls Dam, where participants will observe public safety and security features in practice and apply course concepts during a facilitated wrap-up session.

Internal Erosion Workshop (DLS-208) establishes the essential skills for assessing internal erosion potential failure modes in support of dam and levee risk assessments. It provides pertinent background related to physics and mechanics of internal erosion mechanisms, summarizes important case histories, and identifies best practices for estimating probabilities of failure during a risk analysis. Physics-based analytical models of the RMC Internal Erosion Suite of toolboxes are central to assessing internal erosion potential failure modes, and an in-depth understanding of their application is essential to informing judgment for sound and consistent RIDM

1/2 Day Virtual 8/17/2026 9:00AM -2:00PM MDT 2 Day In Person 8/25-26/2026 Denver, Colorado 8:00AM -5:00PM MDT