Agenda

Tue
Mar 31
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Registration

Morning General Session

Presiding: Mark Land, PE, Chairman, Environmental and Water Resources Conference Committee

 

8:25 AM – 8:30 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Mark Land, Committee Chair

Interactive Trivia Introduction

8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Iowa DOT Flood Forecasting and Response System

Dave Claman, Hydraulic Engineer, Iowa Department of Transportation

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM New Water Supply Reservoir for Osceola: A Marathon with a Sprinter’s Urgency

Michael Butterfield, PE, Project Manager, HDR

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break - Interactive Trivia Part I

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM The CISWRA Project: A Water Quality Report and Call to Action in the Des Moines and Raccoon River Watersheds

Elliot Anderson, Ph. D., PE, Assistant Research Scientist, University of Iowa

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Central Iowa Water Works Regional Water Treatment Facility Study

Ashley Geesman, PE, Area Drinking Water Market Sector Lead, HDR Engineering, Inc.

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Update regarding the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy

Susan Kozak, Division Director, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Luncheon Presentation - What's in Your Water? - Using Genetic Testing to Better Understand Our Aquatic Systems

Claire Hruby, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Drake University

Afternoon General Session

Moderator – Jonathan Garton, Environmental and Water Resources Conference Committee Member

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM ICON Water Trails - Construction of Whitewater Projects in Downtown Des Moines

Monica Converse, Project Manager, ICON Water Trails and Mark Land, PE, CFM, Vice President, Snyder & Associates, Inc.

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM Lessons Learned from Pipestem Spillway Modification

Sam Sobczyk, Civil Engineer, USACE

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM Advancing Flash Flood Forecasting Tools for Early Warning Systems

Humberto Vergara, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Break - Interactive Trivia Part II

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM Lower Missouri River Flood Risk and Resiliency Study and Stage Frequency Analysis

Paul Boyd, Ph.D. PE, Hydraulic Engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Engineering Ethics and Public Bidding "We are held to a higher standard"

Larry Sandhaas, PE, SE, Senior Structural Engineer, Shive-Hattery

5:00 PM Adjourn

Wed
Apr 01
ISU Alumni Center

Modeling Best Practices and Key New Features in HEC-RAS 2D Modeling Workshop

BACKGROUND
This course will introduce participants to modeling best practices and key new features in HEC-RAS 2D modeling up through software version 6.6.   Learning will be accomplished through a combination of lectures, project examples. Q&A, and lively discussion.

Participants in this course must have an interest in 2D modeling and have previous experience with 1D/2D modeling related to floodplain mapping, hydraulics, river restoration, stormwater, and or hydraulic structures.  This is not intended to be an introductory course.  The course will be focused on HEC-RAS 2D modeling fundamentals.  This course will cover a range of topics to today’s practitioner including modeling best practices, model troubleshooting, results review and visualization, pipe networks and pump stations, rain-on-grid simulations, and how to incorporate radar rainfall into models.   The intent is to balance good modeling practice with introduction of new or advanced topics.

ASCE HECRAS Training

INSTRUCTORS
Nathan Young Iowa Flood Center
Dan Gilles Iowa Flood Center
Matt Zager USACE Rock Island
Ben Lorenzen USACE
Roger Kay USACE
Nick Thomas HDR
Brice Stafne HDR
Andy McCoy HDR

8:25 AM – 8:45 AM Introductions

Roger Kay

Connection to ASCE EWRI World Congress Conference

Andy McCoy

8:45 AM – 10:15 AM Module 1 (Nick Thoms and Matt Zager) Model Best Practices

  • Model set up, work flow, data requirements
  • Defining model (breaklines, manning’s roughness, Boundary Conditions)
  • Meshing, RAS Mapper including terrain mods

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM Break

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM Module 2 (Nick Thomas and Brice Stafne) Model Results Review

  • How to quickly and efficiently set up visualization

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Module 3 (Ben Lorenzen) Model Troubleshooting

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Module 4 (Matt Zager) Pipe Networks + Pump Stations

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM Module 5 (Dan Gilles and Nate Young) Rain on Grid Model Set Up

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM Module 6 (Dan Gilles) Incorporating Radar Rainfall

  • Radar Rainfall – where to get it, how to get it into DSS,
  • How to use vortex

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Module 7 (Ben Lorenzen) HEC RAS 2025 Demonstration