For this month’s Technical event, we are pleased to announce a presentation on When Your Road is a Dam. Many state, county and local roadway embankments (and some railroad embankments) also serve as dam embankments, holding back lakes for recreation, water supply and other uses. With this comes challenges in design with geotechnical, hydrologic and hydraulic conditions which are quite different from that of a typical roadway or railroad embankment. This presentation will touch on these design differences when facing reconstruction or rehabilitation of a bridge or roadway embankment serving as a dam.
John Ritchey, PE, joined French and Parrello Associates as a Project Consultant in April 2019. Prior to joining FPA, he was with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection for 34 years in the Division of Dam Safety and Flood Control. As a supervising engineer in the Dam Safety Bureau, John was involved in over 300 dam restoration projects and over 1000 dam inspections. In his final two years at DEP, he was the Bureau Chief in the Bureau of Flood Control where he worked on major flood control projects with the US Army Corps of Engineers and oversaw the development, maintenance, amendments, and distribution of NJ Floodway and Flood Hazard Area delineation maps. John graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from West Virginia University and is a licensed professional engineer.
Christopher Marx, PE, is a Senior Project Manager at French and Parrello Associates and has over 16 years of experience. Chris’ dam safety experience includes hydrologic and hydraulic studies, dam rehabilitation designs, the preparation of plans, specifications and design reports, construction oversight, development of Emergency Action Plans, Inundation Mapping, and Operation and Maintenance Manuals. Chris has participated in over 300 dam safety inspections and numerous dam rehabilitation projects. Chris graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Rutgers University and is a licensed professional engineer.
Attendees will be eligible to receive 1 PDH credit (NJ, PA, and DE; check for eligibility in other states).
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