Introduction to Dam Safety, Inspection and Rehabilitation
DISCLAIMER
Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
Learn more about the on-demand format in our FAQ or contact us at (715) 835-5900 or customerservice@halfmoonseminars.org
Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
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8:00 – 8:30 am CST
Morning Session
8:30 – 11:30 am CST
Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm CST
Afternoon Session
12:30 – 5:00 pm CST
Presented by Sidney May
Introduction
Purpose and history of dams
Types of dams
Status of dams
Dam failures
Legislation and Liability
Embankment Dams
Design
Performance
Instrumentation and monitoring
Performance indicators
Concrete Gravity Dams
Design
Performance
Instrumentation and monitoring
Performance indicators
Spillways and Other Types of Dams
Design
Performance
Instrumentation and monitoring
Performance indicators
Dam Problems
Vegetation
Sinkholes
Slide, slump, or slip
Erosion
Rodent activity and animal impact
Seepage
Inspections
Evaluations
Decisions
Actions
Developing Emergency Action Plans
What is the purpose of an emergency action plan?
How to develop an emergency action plan
Planning and Implementing a Dam Safety Monitoring Program
What is a dam safety program?
Implementing a dam safety program
Dam Stability and Rehabilitation
Embankment dams
Concrete gravity dams
Spillways and other types of dams
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Windows 7 – 10 or Mac OSX Mavericks (10.9) – macOS Catalina (10.15)
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Credits
Professional & Civil Engineers
7.0 PDHs in all sates
Continuing Education Credit Information
This live interactive webinar offers 7.0 PDHs/continuing education hours to professional engineers licensed in all states.
HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for engineers in Florida (Provider No. 0004647), Indiana (License No. CE21700059), Maryland, New Jersey (Approval No. 24GP00000700), North Carolina (S-0130), and North Dakota. Other states do not preapprove educators or courses.
HalfMoon Education is deemed a New York-approved continuing education provider for engineers via its registration with the American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2).
Course completion certificates will be awarded to participants who complete the webinar in its entirety, respond to all the prompts during the instruction, and earn a score of 80% on the quiz that follows the instruction (multiple attempts allowed).
Speakers
Sidney May
Civil Engineer in Birmingham, ALMs. May is a multi-state licensed professional civil engineer with over 15 years of work experience in transportation design and construction, civil site design, and environmental planning and compliance. She is the president and principal engineer of her own women-owned small business (WOSB) engineering firm. Ms. May attended the University of Alabama and holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering. Her areas of expertise include public works processes for local, state, and federal projects; designing and managing capital improvements projects; developing project scope documents; creating project estimates and budgets; preparing design drawings; developing specifications for bidding purposes; and managing projects during construction. Ms. May develops course curriculums and instructs PDH seminars and professional engineering exam review courses. She volunteers with local engineering academies and S.T.E.A.M. programs and serves as a professional mentor for civil engineering students at the University of Alabama. She recently served as the Birmingham Branch Director of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and is on the National Policy Committee for Professional Licensure.