Foundation Preparation and Treatment for Dam Construction: On-Demand

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Speaker: John W. France, P.E., D.GE, D.WRE, President, JWF Consulting, LLC

PDHs: This webinar is eligible for 2 PDH credits.

This webinar will address a wide range of foundation preparation and treatment methods applicable to construction of new dams, rehabilitation of existing dams, and enlargement of existing dams. Topics to be covered include: treatment of surface rock exposures in dam foundations, rock grouting, treatment of foundation soils, foundation seepage barrier walls and upstream blankets, and foundation seepage collection and control methods.

John W. France, P.E., D.GE, D.WRE

President, JWF Consulting, LLC

JWF Consulting, LLC.

Mr. France has more than 45 years of consulting engineering experience. Most of his technical work for the past 37 years has focused on dams and water retention structures. He has been responsible for the analysis, design, and construction of embankment and roller compacted concrete dams and their appurtenant structures. He has served on numerous senior technical review boards and panels for dam safety projects for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, BC Hydro, and Brookfield Renewable Energy. Mr. France was the team leader for the Independent Forensic Teams tasked with investigating the 2017 Oroville Dam, CA spillway incident and the 2020 failures of Edenville and Sanford Dams, MI.