CASFM 2006
Program Schedule
2006 CASFM CONFERENCE PROGRAM
“Building
Communities Beyond the 100-Year Line”
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Certified Floodplain Manager Training Session
Location: Teddy Roosevelt Room
Kallie Bauer, Applegate Group, Chris Tagert, Michael Baker
Erin Ansell, CDM and Kevin Houck, CWCB
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
7:00 - 10:00 am
Certified Floodplain Manager Exam
Location:
Teddy Roosevelt Room
Kallie Bauer, Applegate Group, Chris Tagert, Michael Baker
Erin Ansell, CDM and Kevin Houck, CWCB
8:00 - 9:45 am
Registration
Bruce Behrer, Muller Engineering
9:45 - 10:00 am
Introduction and Welcome
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Tom Browning, CASFM Chair
10:00 - 11:15 am
Keynote Address “FEMA’s New Policies on Levees”
Dave Maurstad, Director of Mitigation Division at FEMA
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
11:30 – 1:15 pm
Lunch
Location: Colorado Room
Introduction of 2006/2007 Officers
Pam Pogue, Chair ASFPM
Scholarship Recipient 2005/2006 Technical Presentation
“Aggregated Uncertainties in Floodplain Delineations”
Nancy Steinberger, CSU Civil Engineering Dept. CASFM Scholarship Recipient
1:15 - 2:30 pm
Post-Katrina Experiences
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Brian Hyde and Penn Gildersleeve
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Break in Vendor Areas
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Project Presentations: 2006 CASFM Award Finalists
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Moderator:
John Pflaum, ASCG, Inc.
Massey Draw Stream Improvement Project
Jefferson County, UDFCD & ERO Resources
Piney Creek Stabilization and Trail Connections Project
Arapahoe County Public Works, UDFCD & ICON Engineering
Sanderson Gulch Improvements
UDFCD, Matrix Design Group, Perspectiva & City and County of Denver
Dry Creek Drainage Improvement Project
City of Fort Collins & URS Corporation
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Happy Hour in Vendor Exhibit Area
Dinner on your own
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CASFM 2006
Program Schedule
Thursday, September 28, 2006
7:30 - 8:30 am
General Membership Breakfast Meeting
All members welcome
Location: Devereux Grand Ballroom
8:30 – 12:00 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions
(10:00 – 10:30 am Break)
Flood Preparedness
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Moderator:
Jason Ullmann, Applegate Group
“Flood Preparedness Exercise 2006 – Dealing with a Big Thompson-Like Flood on Boulder Creek”
Alan Taylor, City of Boulder, Jeff Brislawn, AMEC Earth & Environmental
Kevin Stewart, UDFCD
“Chatfield Reservoir Reallocation Study”
Tom Browning, Colorado Water Conservation Board
“2006 Flood Season Review”
Kevin Houck, Colorado Water Conservation Board
“Map Modernization in Colorado, Lessons Learned, Changes and the Future”
Dawn Gladwell, Colorado Water Conservation Board
“Updated Hydrologic Analyses for the Virgin and Santa Clara Rivers based on Statistical Methods”
Frank Lan, PhD, and Monica Bortolini, URS Corporation
Jeffrey Smith, Dewberry and John Liou, PhD, FEMA
“A Geomorphologic Evaluation of the Fountain Creek Watershed based on the Updated Hydrology
and Hydraulics, and the Analysis of Sediment Transport and Historical Aerial Photos”
Frank Lan, PhD, Jennifer Dichkans, Graham Thompson, Williams Alspach, URS Corp.
Stream Restoration
Location:
Teddy Roosevelt Room
Moderator:
Michelle Leach, Perspectiva
“Science-Based Bio- and Bio-Technical Engineering”
George W. Annandale, Engineering and Hydrosystems Inc.,
“South Platte River Segment 15, Aquatic Life/Habitat Assessment Study”
Moosub Eom and Ted Johnson, CDM Inc.,
Barbara Biggs and Jim Dorsch, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District
“Stream Insects: A Tool to Evaluate Stormwater Impacts”
David E. Rees, Timberline Aquatics, Inc. and Donna Scott, City of Boulder
“Stream Restoration in Highlands Ranch – 25 Years in Review”
Forrest Dykstra, Highlands Ranch Metro Districts
Derek Johns and Joe Juergensen, Muller Engineering Company
“Can Vegetation Augmentation Stabilize a Prairie Drainage Swale? Monitoring Results from
Highlands Ranch
Deborah Keammerer, The Restoration Group, and Cindy Thrush, UDFCD
“Business Cooperation for a Successful Project, the Van Bibber Drainage Improvement Project”
Patrick Dougherty, City of Arvada
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CASFM 2006
Program Schedule
Stormwater Management and Erosion Control
Location:
Colorado Room
Moderator:
Terry Baus, Denver Wastewater
“Promoting Stormwater Infiltration with Mountain Construction and Post Construction BMP’s”
Michelle DeLaria, Stormwater Quality Coordinator, Jefferson County
“Post-Fire Sediment Yield Estimation Study “
Brian M. Murphy, and Jennifer M. Patterson, Engineering and Hydrosystems, Inc.
“Use of Level Spreaders in Stormwater Infiltration BMPs”
Jeff Cheng and Kevin Wegener, City of Aurora; and Penn Gildersleeve, Icon Engineering
“Impediments to Innovative Urban Water Resources Management”
Jonathan E. Jones, and Derek Rapp, Wright Water Engineers and
William Wenk and Paul Thomas, Wenk Associates
“Cherry Creek Sediment Basin and Stream Stabilization at Arapahoe Road”
Cherry Creek Water Quality Authority and Peggy Bailey, Tetra Tech, Inc.
“Stormwater Funding in Unincorporated El Paso County”
André Brackin, El Paso County Dept of Transportation and Rob Zuber, HDR, Inc.
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Location:
Box Lunch set up in the Grand Lobby
Board Member Lunch Meeting on Veranda
All Board Members, Regional Rep’s, and Committee Chairs please attend.
1:00 - 4:30 pm
(2:30 – 3:00 pm
Concurrent - Workshops/Field Trip
Break)
Workshop #1 – Monitoring Stream Restoration Projects
Past Projects, Techniques and Methods
The workshop will cover stream restoration monitoring objectives, monitoring methodology,
application to site-specific conditions, database creation and maintenance, replicate
measurement strategy and frequency, and assessment of geomorphic changes over time.
The workshop will include a field trip to the Roaring Fork River where creation of a monitoring
plan and approach will be demonstrated.
Location:
Colorado Room
Instructors:
John Elliott, USGS and
Ray Tenney, Colorado River Water Conservation District
Workshop #2 – Calibrating Basins using Gage and Radar Estimation
A “hands-on” practical workshop on improving basin model calibration using gage and
radar-estimated precipitation.
Location:
Teddy Roosevelt Room
Instructors:
John F. Henz, Dr. Jerry Kenny, William Badini, Patrick McNierney and
Robert Rahrs, HDR Water Resources
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Cocktail Hour and Vendor Exhibit in Vendor Area
7:00 - 9:30 pm
CASFM Association Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Awards:
John Pflaum, ASCG, Inc.
Observations:
2006 CASFM Project Awards Presentation
Grand Prize Drawings
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CASFM 2006
Program Schedule
Friday, September 29, 2006
7:00 - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast in Vendor Area
8:00 - 8:30 am
Closing Remarks
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
CASFM Chair, Stormwater/Flood Committee Chair
Conference Evaluation
8:30 – 12:00 pm Concurrent Technical Sessions
(10:00 – 10:30 am Break)
River Hydrology and Hydraulic Modeling
Location:
Devereux Grand Ballroom
Moderator:
Chuck Childs, SEH
“3-D Hydraulic Computer Modeling of Rivers and Storm Drainage”
William Taggart, Michael Galuzzi, George Slovensky, and Brian Chevalier, ASCG Inc.
“An Alternate Floodway Approach for Salt Creek: Balancing Regulatory Requirements and
Community Needs”
Erin Ansell, CDM
“DFIRM Requirements for Mapping the Effects of Levees”
Mark Kempton and Greg Koch, Anderson Consulting,
Dennis Maroney, City of Pueblo and Dawn Gladwell, CWCB
“East Grand Forks Flood Protection Project”
Mark Angelo, SEH Inc.
“Split Flows, Divided Flows, and Spills: Clear Creek Flood Hazard Analysis”
Richard T. Smith, Ayres Associates, Inc
“Large Scale, GIS-based Hydrologic Analysis of the Fountain Creek Watershed”
Jennifer Dickhans and Graham Thompson, URS Corporation
Channel Stabilization
Location:
Colorado Room
Moderator:
Jeremy Franz, Ayres Associates
“Sculpted Concrete Drop Structures”
David Bennetts, and David Mallory, UDFCD
“Urban Surface Water Diversions – A New Generation”
Douglas R. Laiho, Hydrosphere Resource Consultants
“Heartsville Coulee Diversion Channel East Grand Forks Flood Protection Project”
Brad Woznak, Rocky Keehn, Pete Fischer, Dan Cazanacli, SEH Inc.
“Stable Channel Design for Meandering Channels”
Hui-Ming Shih and Eugene P. Vdojansky, Martin/Martin and
Jeff Y. C. Cheng, City of Aurora
“Technical Considerations in Hydraulic Jump Design”
R. Leif Embertson, Ayres Associates
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CASFM 2006
Program Schedule
Urban Stormwater Runoff and Master Planning
Location:
Moderator:
Teddy Roosevelt Room
Chris Carlson, City of Loveland
“Paradox of Computer Modeling for Stormwater Designs”
James C.Y. Guo, PhD. Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver
“Effect of Rain Gage Density and Hyetograph Compositing on Stormwater Runoff Simulation”
Ken MacKenzie, Urban Drainage & Flood Control District and
James C.Y. Guo, PhD. Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver
“Comparison of Small Watershed Flood Flow Analysis from Gauge Data to Modeled Estimates”
Kimberly Watanabe, City & County of Denver
“Consideration of Residual Floodplains with On-Site and Regional Detention in Master Planning”
T. Andrew Earles, Ph.D., Wright Water Engineers, Inc.
“Land Use Forecasting and Hydrologic Model Integration for Improved Land Use Decision Support
and Flood Hazard Mitigation”
Graeme Aggett, Riverside Technology, Inc
12:00 - 5:00 pm
Golf Tournament at Lakota Canyon Ranch in New Castle
Contact:
Mike Bartusek, ADP – Kirkham Michael
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