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WEBINAR SUMMARY:
The USACE Risk Management Center (RMC) supports Dam and Levee Safety Programs by developing tools, advancing methodologies, and overseeing complex projects. The RMC’s flood hydrology team has pioneered tools to estimate flood frequency with uncertainty, aiding the assessment of over 700 dams and 10,000 miles of levees. These tools are also used for critical infrastructure risk analysis. Probabilistic Flood Hazard Analysis supports dam and levee risk assessments by generating flood hazard curves for peak stage, flow, and volume-duration probabilities. Core tools include RMC-RRFT (Rainfall-Runoff Frequency Tool), RMC-BestFit, and RMC-RFA (Reservoir Frequency Analysis). RMC-TotalRisk integrates these analyses with event tree modeling. Web-based applications, including the Levee Screening Tool (LST 2.0) and Dam Safety Tool (DST), quantify risk using HEC-RAS 2D modeling, LifeSim, and national datasets. Future plans aim to integrate RMC’s flood hazard tools into these platforms. This presentation highlights RMC’s tools, methodologies, and future advancements.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Discover RMC publicly-available software and information: Participants will learn about the suite of tools, methodologies, and workflows for probabilistic flood hazard analysis (PFHA) and how they support risk assessment for dams and levees.
2. Explore Integration and Applications: Participants will explore the integration of flood hazard tools into web-based applications like the Levee Screening Tool (LST 2.0) and Dam Safety Tool (DST), and their use in quantifying risk and informing infrastructure safety.
3. Recognize Future Advancements: Participants will gain insight into anticipated advancements in flood hazard tools, risk modeling workflows, and their implications for improving dam and levee safety programs.

SPEAKER:

Haden Smith
Lead Engineer
USACE RMC

Haden Smith is a Lead Engineer with the USACE Risk Management Center, specializing in developing risk methodologies, conducting flood hazard assessments for high-priority dams and levees, and advancing risk analysis software, including RMC-BestFit, RMC-RFA, and RMC-TotalRisk. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Memphis, an M.S. in Risk Management from Notre Dame of Maryland University, and an M.S. in Economics from the Colorado School of Mines.

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