Tuesday, June 25
F session
Location: Chambers 2 & 4
Moderator: Alan Walker, Resource Institute
Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) & Dam Removal
8:30 am
Removal of the ER Collins Dams: Co-Benefits Include Fish Migration, Flood Reduction, Ecotourism and Public Safety
-- Beth Styler Barry, The Nature Conservancy, NJ, Chester, NJ
-- Geoffrey M. Goll, PE, Princeton Hydro, Trenton, NJ
8:50 am
Dam Removal and Stream Restoration in the Urban Environment
-- Geoffrey M. Goll, PE, Princeton Hydro, LLC, Trenton, New Jersey
9:10 am
Design, Implementation, and Monitoring of Dam Removal and Pond Decommissioning in Vermont: Updates on Various Case Studies from Vermont
-- Jordan Duffy, PE, CPESC, CFM, Fitzgerald Environmental Associates, Colchester, Vermont
9:30 am
Competing With Natural Channel Design Crediting Paradigms: Review of Dam Removal as an Innovative Stream Mitigation Approach
-- Wes Newell, Resource Environmental Solutions (RES), Pittsboro, NC
9:50 am
Dam Removal Success for Restoration & Landowners
-- Conner Smith, PE, Water and Land Solutions, Westerville, OH
10:10 am
Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:30 am
Decommissioning a 90-Year-Old Dam on Blackwater Creek
-- Emily Burgess, AECOM, Germantown, MD
10:50 am
Performance Monitoring Development for Impoundment Removal Projects
-- Bree Stephens, RES, Richmond, VA
11:10 am
Dam Removals on the Lower Saranac River in Plattsburgh, NY
-- Roy Schiff, SLR Consulting, Waterbury, VT
-- Doug Osborn, Roy Schiff, SLR Consulting, Waterbury, VT
-- David Minkoff, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Essex Junction, VT
11:30 am
Building Diverse Partnerships to Facilitate Species Resiliency Through Aquatic Organism Passage
-- Julie Butler, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Essex Junction, Vermont
11:50 am
Aquatic Organism Passage Grant Program
-- Corrie Veenstra, USDOT - Federal Railroad Administration, Washington, DC
-- Joseph Krolak, USDOT - Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC
12:10 pm - Lunch Provided