Dam Safety and Ethics 24 PDH Discount Package
Courses in this Package
Engineering Ethics Case Study: The Taum Sauk Reservoir Failure (LE5-001)
Impact of Plants on Earthen Dams (C08-014)
Impacts of Animals on Earthen Dams (C08-016)
Vegetation Management at Levees, Floodwalls and Dams (C03-037)
This online engineering PDH course provides instruction in engineering ethics through a case study of the Taum Sauk failure. The interaction between decisions made in the original design process in the 1960s and errors made in installing new water-level control instrumentation in 2004 is discussed in detail.
In the morning of December 14th, 2005, the upper reservoir of the Taum Sauk Pumped Storage Project near Lesterville, Missouri, USA, was overtopped during the final pumping cycle. Overtopping of the 10 ft high parapet wall and subsequent failure of the rockfill embankment formed a breach about 720 feet wide at the top of the rockfill dam and 430 feet at the base. The breach widened quickly, and complete evacuation of the 4,350 acre-ft upper reservoir occurred within about 25 minutes.
This 5 PDH online course is intended for civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers concerned with issues of ethics and responsible behavior in the management of complex projects in which safety and the avoidance of catastrophic failure are of concern.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires taking greatly increased precautions if the risk of catastrophic failure is found to have increased
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires assuming responsibility for ensuring that safety is maintained, when an existing project is modified
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires recognizing one's own limitations of technical expertise and accordingly seeking guidance from knowledgeable personnel, when applying one's expertise to a narrowly focused modification of a large complex project, the general theory and practice of which are not included in one's expertise
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires determining how overall safety of a large complex project can be affected by individual tasks, often seemingly small
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires being familiar with the assumptions used in the original design of a complex project and how safety will be affected by proposed modifications in the project
- Understanding that ethical behavior requires documenting the reasoning behind technical decision making so that mistakes can be identified and avoided in the future
- Learning about the theory, construction, and maintenance of rockfill dams
- Learning about the monitoring and failure modes of rockfill dams
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document which is based on FERC Report No. P-2277, "Taum Sauk Upper Dam Breach, Technical Reasons for the Breach of December 14, 2005 ", prepared by the FERC Independent Panel of Consultants, May 24, 2006.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides the technical knowledge necessary to understand 1) the detrimental impacts of tree and woody vegetation growth on the safety of earthen dams, and 2) the methods, procedures, and benefits of maintaining desirable ground-covering vegetation on the embankments of earthen dams.
Damage to earthen dams and dam safety issues associated with tree and woody vegetation penetrations of earthen dams is all too often believed by many dam owners, safety regulators, and engineers to be a routine maintenance situation. Contrary to this belief, tree and woody vegetation penetrations of earthen dams and their appurtenances have been demonstrated to be causes of serious structural deterioration and distress that can result in failure of earthen dams.
This 8 PDH online course is intended for dam owners, operators, inspectors, safety regulators, engineers, and consultants interested in gaining a better understanding of the impacts of plants on earthed dams.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Learning about problems with tree and woody vegetation growth on dams
- Understanding the principles of tree growth and tree root development
- Becoming familiar with earthen dam safety inspection and evaluation methodology
- Knowing the goals of controlling tree and woody vegetation growth on earthen dams
- Learning about proper dam remediation design
- Understanding the economics of proper vegetation maintenance
- Understanding the relation of cost of mowing versus tree removal
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the FEMA Publication 534, "Technical Manual for Dam Owners, Impacts of Plants on Earthen Dams," September, 2005.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides a fundamental understanding and technical knowledge of potential detrimental impacts of nuisance wildlife on the safety of earthen dams and methods of controlling and/or removing the listed animal species.. It will introduce you to the principles and practices of identifying problems in existing earthen dams that are the result of animal activity. Some common misconceptions concerning animal activity on dams will be presented. This course will also give you an introduction to the steps necessary to protect a dam from potentially serious damage from nuisance wildlife.
The purpose of this manual was for FEMA to provide a comprehensive survey of animal impacts on earthen dams across the
This 8 PDH online course is intended for use by engineers, dam owners, maintenance contractors, operators, inspectors, dam safety regulators, consultants and landscape architects interested in gaining a better understanding of the impacts of animals on earthen dams.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Awareness of the seriousness of dam safety problems associated with animal impacts
- Understanding of dam safety issues by reviewing current damage control policies
- Understanding of the habitat of common nuisance wildlife
- Understanding of the range and behavior of common nuisance wildlife
- Understanding of the habitat of common nuisance wildlife
- Learning about the descriptions and range of common nuisance wildlife
- Analyzing biological data to determine which specific nuisance wildlife inhabits the dam
- Methods of proper identification of common nuisance wildlife
- Understanding remediation design considerations related to dam damage from animals
- Learning about procedures for management of desirable animal activity on earthen dams
- Learning useful statistics on dams damaged by animal activity
- Understanding the collective view of state and federal dam safety officials
- Learning about the different methods for repairing damage caused by animals
- Knowing the recommended methods controlling different species of animals
- Learning how to recognize different species of animals and their activity
- Learning about the use of construction methods for control of animal activity
- Understanding the relationship between well compacted soil and animal activity
- Learning about the rules of thumb for analysis of dam safety conditions
- Identifying the five (5) safety inspection and evaluation zones
- Understanding the pros and cons of regular maintenance versus long term remediation
- Understanding the compounding affect of smaller animals attracting larger predators
- Understanding the compounding physical and economic effects of delayed maintenance
- Learning about the guidelines for estimating costs of maintenance and remediation
- Understanding the critical need to maintain animal activity in a timely manner
In this professional engineering CEU course you will need to review the FEMA Publication titled, "Impacts of Animals on earthen Dams", FEMA 473, September 2005.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides guidelines to assure that landscape planting and vegetation management provide aesthetic and environmental benefits without compromising the reliability of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures. The dimensions of the vegetation-free and root-free zones defined in this document provide the minimum acceptable buffer between vegetation and flood damage reduction structures.
This 3 PDH online course is intended for civil and hydraulic engineers involved with the design and maintenance of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
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Learning about proper landscape planting: objectives and engineering requirements
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Understanding the need for vegetation-free zone and vegetation-management zone
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Understanding the areas of concern involving root impacts and root-free zone
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Learning about treatment of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and other structures
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Learning about feasibility analysis, planting berms, planters and irrigation systems
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Learning about flood-fighting and structure maintenance
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Understanding the goals of plant material selection and planting maintenance
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Understanding the purpose of appropriate ground cover in the vegetation-free zone
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Learning how to treat borrow sites and spoil sites
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Learning about vegetation-related maintenance and repair
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Deciding when removal of non-compliant vegetation is appropriate
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Technical (USACE) Letter No. 1110-2-583, "Guidelines for landscape planting and vegetation management at levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures", dated April 10, 2009.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.