Technical Service Center
Waterways and Concrete Dams Group (86-68130)
Contact
John Trojanowski, Group Manager, JTrojanowski@usbr.gov, 303-445-3263
Bureau of Reclamation
P.O. Box 25007, 86-68130
Denver, Colorado 80225
Crystal
Dam Service Spillway, Colorado |
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McPhee
Dam Service Spillway, Colorado |
The Waterways and Concrete
Dams Group specializes in structural, hydraulic, and quantitative risk analyses, evaluations, and
designs of appurtenant hydraulic structures (such as spillways and outlet works)
for both concrete and embankment dams. The group is effective in undertaking and
completing work ranging from long-term, complex technical activities to small,
"quick-turn-around" technical studies. A large portion of the group's work and
experience involves safety of dams evaluations.
Specific Capabilities
- Site suitability for hydraulic structures and concrete dams
- Location,
layout, and design of hydraulic structures and concrete dams
- Field exploration
and monitoring programs for hydraulic structures and concrete dams
- Loading
conditions for hydraulic structures
- Technical criteria, standards, and guidelines
used in hydraulic and structural analyses
- Technical consulting associated
with analyses, designs, and construction support
- Technical expertise associated
with risk assessment, failure mode identification, and performance parameter development
- Comprehensive and flexible training programs, technology transfer, and project
management
- Project management of major dam studies and design projects
| Unique Capabilities
- Rehabilitation of existing hydraulic structures and concrete dams
- Breaching
of concrete dams
- Roller compacted concrete (RCC) technology
- Reservoir
routings for single and multiple dams and systems
- Mitigation of damage caused by cavitation
and stagnation pressure
- Overtopping protection for concrete and embankment
dams
- Evaluation of intake towers subject to seismic loadings
- Development
of diversion systems
- Closed circuit television (CCTV) inspection and evaluation services are available for toe drains, relief wells, outlet works/spillway conduits, pipelines, penstocks, siphons, and gates/valves (See the CCTV brochure). For more information on CCTV, contact Doug Stanton (86-68130) at 303-445-3265.
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