2025 Best Practices in Dam and Levee Safety Risk Analysis

October 28, 2025 9:30 AM - November 6, 2025 5:00 PM (MDT)

Description

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

All Sessions, Virtual and In Person are required for course completion

Virtual- October 28 - 30, 2025, and In Person- November 4 - 6, 2025 in Denver, CO

Target Audience:

The target audience for this training is engineers, scientists, and regulators interested in better understanding and preparing to participate in and/or facilitate dam and levee safety risk assessments. 

Learning Objectives: The training includes instruction to enable participants to:

 - Create potential failure mode descriptions and event trees, and use them to develop risk estimates.

- Describe the hazards that affect dams and levees and apply them to risk analysis.

- Identify relevant case histories and foundational research studies. 

- Apply principles of theory of probability and statistics to quantify, combine, and portray risk estimates. 

- Identify essential elements of life loss consequence estimates.

- Build the case for risk estimates.

- Explain governance and risk guidelines.

- Become familiar with other disciplines and their input to risk estimates.

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