1998 Dam Safety Conference Proceedings

The following is a compendium of technical papers which were presented at the 1998 ASDSO Annual Conference held at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 11-14, 1998. All presentations except the general session presentations on Monday and those papers not received by the print date are published here.  Papers were chosen from over 100 submittals by the conference program committee, chaired by Dale Frink (North Dakota state representative). The ASDSO Board of Directors gave final approval of all speakers. ASDSO wishes to thank all those who submitted abstracts. A special thanks to all speakers, moderators, and session coordinators for their contributions to the conference.

Special thanks to Dale Frink for overseeing the technical agenda and his committee: Ken Stern (New Hampshire), Ed Fiegle (Georgia), Jim Alexander (Missouri), Jason King (Nevada), Karl Myers (Piedmont Geotechnical Consultants) and Eric Ditchey (Schnabel Engineering); to Jason King and his staff and the Nevada Division of Water Resources for their contributions as hosts; to Terry Hampton and Cherrie Warren (Mead & Hunt, Inc.) for organizing the moderators; and, to Susan Sorrell, ASDSO conference director, for her year-round work on this event.