Jennifer Bountry leads the Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Branch of the US Bureau of Reclamation's Technical Service Center in Denver, CO where she helped to coordinate and draft an interagency guidance document on scaling sediment transport analyses to the project risk. It is a helpful and important document that I recommend to any group moving towards a dam removal, to help them triage the analyses required for their decommissioning.

Jennifer was also involved in the analyses for the largest anthropogenic dam removal to date, and talked to us about her team's experiences with the Elwha dams. We wanted to wrap up our reservoir sediment mini-season talking about the final stage in the reservoir sediment life-cycle, and her experiences on the project and national scale made Jennifer an excellent guide into this world.

The Dam Removal Analysis Guidelines for Sediment are here:
https://www.usbr.gov/tsc/techreferences/mands/mands-pdfs/DamRemovalAnalysisGuidelinesForSediment_09-2016_508.pdf

Dam Removal Cost Triage "Shiny App": https://wrises.shinyapps.io/DamRemovalCostPredictiveModel/

This series was funded by the Regional Sediment Management (RSM) program.

Stanford Gibson (HEC Sediment Specialist) hosts.

Mike Loretto edited the episode and wrote and performed the music.

Video shorts and other bonus content are available at the podcast website (which was temporarily down but is back up now):
https://www.hec.usace.army.mil/confluence/rasdocs/rastraining/latest/the-rsm-river-mechanics-podcast

...but most of the supplementary videos are available on the HEC Sediment YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/stanfordgibson

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Jennifer Bountry on Dam Removal

RSM River Mechanics Podcast