University of Michigan
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University of California
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Fort Collins Marriott
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Holiday Inn
Downtown-Portland
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University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
February 10-11, 2005
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"There are few issues that excite more controversy amongst a significant portion of the engineering and environmental communities than the issue of removing a functioning dam. The parties often find themselves polarized with the one extreme seeing dam removal as an act of sacrilege while the other side sees it as an act of salvation. While there may be much sentiment attached to an older and non-functioning structure there is generally a modicum of common sense that tells all of us that when a dam has outlived its physical life span it should be removed." – From the EWRI of ASCE Task Force–"White Paper on Removal of Functioning Dams".
When and where are the workshops?

This series of workshops follows the well received August 2003 EWRI workshop held at Johns Hopkins University and is the result of recommendations made by both the Aspen Institute and the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment in their respective studies, Dam Removal - A New Option for a New Century, and DAM REMOVAL - Science and Decision Making. Both reports noted that holding a workshop would improve communication across disciplinary boundaries.

Ten Professional Development Hours can be earned through participation in one of the following workshops:
  • July 12-13, 2004 - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan
  • August 16-17, 2004 - University of CA, Berkeley, California
  • August 30-31, 2004 - Ft. Collins Marriott, Fort Collins, Colorado
  • November 8-9, 2004 - Holiday Inn Portland-Downtown Portland, Oregon
  • February 10-11, 2005 - University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee
These five workshops will be conducted in six plenary sessions held over two days featuring two speakers presenting their experience on the responses associated with dam removal and leading a roundtable discussion amongst the attendees.