BC Hydro Experience with Environmental Management: British Colombia, CanadaCPWF Mekong
By Sokhem Pech, Hatfield Consultant and M-Power
Presented at the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
December 7-9, 2011
Session 1: Managing water resources development within a water-food-energy nexus
Lt. Col. Thomas Woodie, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, gave this presentation on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project to the Propeller Club, March 14, 2013 in Savannah, Ga.
BC Hydro Experience with Environmental Management: British Colombia, CanadaCPWF Mekong
By Sokhem Pech, Hatfield Consultant and M-Power
Presented at the Mekong Forum on Water, Food and Energy
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
December 7-9, 2011
Session 1: Managing water resources development within a water-food-energy nexus
Lt. Col. Thomas Woodie, Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District, gave this presentation on the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project to the Propeller Club, March 14, 2013 in Savannah, Ga.
On September 21, Dennis Cushman, Assistant General Manager , along with Peter MacLaggan of Poseidon Resources, provided a presentation at the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation's Investor Breakfast. Topics included water supply and reliability, water rates, and seawater desalination.
The BRA plans to present this Water Management Plan to the Possum Kingdom Lake Stakeholders at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. All business owners, homeowners and interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Landform-based Erosion Control for Stormwater ManagementOHM Advisors
http://www.ohm-advisors.com. An award-winning public works project using landform-based erosion control for stormwater management. The Harvard Drain and Nichols Arboretum project solved an erosion and sedimentation problem with innovative stepped pools, channel design and aesthetic land features.
Ports-to-Plains Energy Summit
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, CO
April 7, 2011
Hydraulic fracturing has been in the news lately. Learn exactly what the process is and how it is impacting economic growth and energy security.
Contolling Costs And Risks In Construction Of The Trans Alaska Oil PipelineWayne Holley
For several years I worked on the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, first as a surveyor and later as a systems analyst. A few weeks ago, in my Controlling Project Costs and Risks class at University of California San Diego, we were assigned to write a short paper connecting a project with the class material. I chose to write about the pipeline project.
Cape Cod Regional Wastewater Management Plan Overview. Background information for presentation during the Buzzards Bay Coalition's 2013 Decision Makers Workshop series. Learn more at www.savebuzzardsbay.org/DecisionMakers
Klingbeil, R., 2013. Managed Aquifer Recharge - MAR and Aquifer Storage Recovery - ASR with Examples from the Region. Presentation at the KISR workshop on ASR. KISR, Kuwait, 02 Apr 2013.
Dwindling availability of water, combined with increases and competition in demand, climate change impacts, trends toward true cost water pricing, among other “drivers,” necessitates that urban water planning incorporate consideration of strategies for use, conservation, and reuse of treated wastewater and stormwater. Three innovative initiatives will be discussed as illustrations of “win-win” approaches that achieve effective water management (urban water security/sustainability) while facilitating economic development.
Kane Aldridge presents a seminar from the second Water Wednesday entitled "Future options for the Lower Lakes." Kane Aldridge is a postdoctoral fellow with Water Research Centre with The Environment Institute at The University of Adelaide.
Water Wednesday - Murray Darling Basin Plan: Striking the right balance
The Water Research Centre in conjunction with Australian Water Association SA Branch presented Water Wednesday on 29 February 2012.
This special joint Water Wednesday forum featured a presentation from Professor Barry Hart, an independent member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, on the Draft Basin Plan which is currently out for public review.
On September 21, Dennis Cushman, Assistant General Manager , along with Peter MacLaggan of Poseidon Resources, provided a presentation at the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation's Investor Breakfast. Topics included water supply and reliability, water rates, and seawater desalination.
The BRA plans to present this Water Management Plan to the Possum Kingdom Lake Stakeholders at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2012. All business owners, homeowners and interested parties are encouraged to attend.
Landform-based Erosion Control for Stormwater ManagementOHM Advisors
http://www.ohm-advisors.com. An award-winning public works project using landform-based erosion control for stormwater management. The Harvard Drain and Nichols Arboretum project solved an erosion and sedimentation problem with innovative stepped pools, channel design and aesthetic land features.
Ports-to-Plains Energy Summit
Omni Interlocken Resort
Broomfield, CO
April 7, 2011
Hydraulic fracturing has been in the news lately. Learn exactly what the process is and how it is impacting economic growth and energy security.
Contolling Costs And Risks In Construction Of The Trans Alaska Oil PipelineWayne Holley
For several years I worked on the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, first as a surveyor and later as a systems analyst. A few weeks ago, in my Controlling Project Costs and Risks class at University of California San Diego, we were assigned to write a short paper connecting a project with the class material. I chose to write about the pipeline project.
Cape Cod Regional Wastewater Management Plan Overview. Background information for presentation during the Buzzards Bay Coalition's 2013 Decision Makers Workshop series. Learn more at www.savebuzzardsbay.org/DecisionMakers
Klingbeil, R., 2013. Managed Aquifer Recharge - MAR and Aquifer Storage Recovery - ASR with Examples from the Region. Presentation at the KISR workshop on ASR. KISR, Kuwait, 02 Apr 2013.
Dwindling availability of water, combined with increases and competition in demand, climate change impacts, trends toward true cost water pricing, among other “drivers,” necessitates that urban water planning incorporate consideration of strategies for use, conservation, and reuse of treated wastewater and stormwater. Three innovative initiatives will be discussed as illustrations of “win-win” approaches that achieve effective water management (urban water security/sustainability) while facilitating economic development.
Kane Aldridge presents a seminar from the second Water Wednesday entitled "Future options for the Lower Lakes." Kane Aldridge is a postdoctoral fellow with Water Research Centre with The Environment Institute at The University of Adelaide.
Water Wednesday - Murray Darling Basin Plan: Striking the right balance
The Water Research Centre in conjunction with Australian Water Association SA Branch presented Water Wednesday on 29 February 2012.
This special joint Water Wednesday forum featured a presentation from Professor Barry Hart, an independent member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, on the Draft Basin Plan which is currently out for public review.
Halla Razak, P.E., Colorado River Program Director at the Water Authority provides an overview of the Quantification Settlement Agreement, the associated canal linings and the benefits to the San Diego region. Presented as part of the May 1 forum, Water Talks: The Colorado River and its Future
Please check out:
http://wisle.org/blog/roosevelt-island-new-york
In 2010 an exciting overseas island joined Cradle to Cradle Islands project: Roosevelt Island in New York.
During 2010 a feasibility study was executed on Roosevelt Island by Urban Answers in cooperation with the Columbia and Fordham Universities. At the end of 2010 the results were presented to the the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. A very good starting point to discuss further cooperation possibilities to implement Cradle to Cradle Island solutions on Roosevelt Island.
Managing Cultural Resources in Water Infrastructure through the Framework of the TRWD/DWU IPL Project by: Mason D. Miller, M.A. AmaTerra Environmental, Inc. Austin, TX - Las Cruces, NM - TWCA Annual Convention 2015
Ronald T. Green, Ph.D., P.G., F. Paul Bertetti, P.G.,
and Nathanial Toll Geosciences and Engineering Division Southwest Research Institute® Presented on behalf of the Irrigation Panel - TWCA Annual Convention 2015
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. Civil Works Transformation
James Hannon, SES
Director, Regional Business
Southwestern Division
US Army Corps of Engineers
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2. Agenda
Overview of SWD Programs
► Civil Works
► Military
Current Initiatives/Future Opportunities
Civil Works Transformation
Summary
Questions
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5. Little Rock District's MV Ted Cook
positions the Crane Barge Mike
Hendricks at Dam 2 during the Navigation (Inland)
flood of 2011 2 major waterways
(GIWW and MKARNS)
Water Supply
•8.4 million acre-feet of Hydroelectric Power
water storage •18 power plants in 6 states
•Water control contracts = produce 6.7 billion kw hours
water for 39 million •87% of regional capacity,
households third in the Corps
Sardis Dam, Oklahoma
Bull Shoals
Powerhouse, Arkansa
s
Recreation
Flood Damage Reduction •20 percent of the Corps' total
•74 flood damage recreation projects located
reduction within the regional boundary
lakes/reservoirs •83 million visitors at 90 operating
•33.22M acre-feet projects located in five states
of flood storage
Moonshine Beach,
•760 miles of local flood
Table Rock Lake, Mo.
protection projects
•$85 B in cumulative
flood damage prevention
Dallas Floodway
Navigation (Ports and Channels)
•4 of the Nation’s “Top Ten” ports
Regulatory (work in waters & wetlands) •32 channels (15 deep draft, 17 shallow draft)
•Over 5000 permit decisions annually •More than 500 M tons of commerce annually
•Protection of waters & wetlands
Regulators examine soils on a
Houston Ship Channel
wetland delineation field visit.
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6. •Engineering • Construction •Installation Support
•Environmental management services for the Army & Air Force
Fort Sill Air Defense
Artillery School
Little Rock AFB
University Center
Fort Bliss 1st Brigade
Combat Team headquarters
IMCOM Headquarters
Future Fort Hood Hospital
San Antonio
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7. Charter for Regional Collaboration
Principles:
Integrating planning processes.
Ensuring the best use of federal
reservoirs, sustainability, and
protection options.
Identifying funding opportunities
and authorities for water planning
and the implementation of State
water plans.
Working together to improve
communication and collaboration.
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8. TWDB / Corps Permit Streamlining Effort
• Goals: educate water resource
providers on permitting process and
identify ways to reduce the time needed
for review/approval of water resource
development projects
• Interagency workshops conducted to
educate water resource providers and
their consultants about permitting a
water resource project
• Developed a multi-agency permit
process flow chart – currently in final
stages of development
• Next steps: finalize and post the flow
chart on TWDB hosted web
site, develop and execute interagency
training workshops.
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10. FRM Corporate Goal: In coordination with stakeholders, transition
existing levees to Corps standards while maintaining PL84-99 eligibility and
adhering to the Endangered Species Act and other Federal environmental
laws.
Transitioning Levee Compliance
Policy Policy
Document Elements
• Worst-first
System-wide
Incorporate into ER 500-1-1
• Interim Progress Milestones
Improve Levee System and/or
Improvement
• Long-term Plan
Framework
Seek Other Solutions
• Regional Solutioneering Teams
Reduce Flood Risk
•Set-back Levees
ETL 1110-2-
•Planting Berms
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•National Solutioneering Team
Standards
•Can be part of SWIF
Vegetation •Environmental Considerations
Variance •Technical Review
Process •Vegetation Management Plan
(PGL) •Can be part of SWIF
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11. Trends Influencing CW’s Future
Flood Risk Aging Infrastructure
Globalization
International water security &
USACE OCONUS missions Competition for Water
Focus on
Sustainability
Domestic Discretionary Funding USACE Organization
Climate Change
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12. Planning Modernization
Top Four Performance Priorities
• Improve Planning Program delivery
(investigations and CG) and instill Civil Works-
wide accountability
• Develop a sustainable national & regional
Planning operational and organization
model
• Improve planner knowledge and experience
(build the bench)
• Modernize planning guidance and processes
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13. Thinking About the Budget Development
Process
A goal-oriented, priority, and performance based program
approach to budgeting
Incorporate integrated water resource management concepts
into budget framework, as appropriate(watershed approach)
Incorporate stakeholder and partner discussions into the
priority decision making process
Develop timeline for full implementation of new budget
process that will evolve over multiple years
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14. Civil Works Infrastructure Strategy
Infrastructure Strategic
Strategic Communication
Investment
Plan
Roadmap (Listening-Based)
Capital
Vision Interagency
Development
Mission O&M
Private Industry
Goals Recapitalization
Objectives Divestiture State & Local
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15. Summary
We’re in a period of tight budgets.
We must take a hard look at priorities
and make sure we’re maximizing
our available resources.
We are continuing to look for opportunities to
better align federal, state, local and public private
partnership efforts.
Through our CW transformation initiatives we believe
that we can work together to optimize our CW water
investments for the future.
The future is ours to change together.
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16. Questions?
For more information, please visit us on the internet at:
www.swd.usace.army.mil
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www.facebook.com/swdusace
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