The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Natural Hazard Mitigation Association (NHMA), Colorado Association for Stormwater and Floodplain Mangers (CASFM), and the Colorado Department of Homeland Security (DHSEM) is sponsoring a floodplain management workshop in Greeley on Thursday, May 17, 2018. This one-day workshop will focus on the...

TRAINING LEVEL: Intermediate CLASS SIZE: Minimum: 20 Maximum: 30 COURSE DESCRIPTION: The National Highway Institute's (NHI) 3-day Stream Stability and Scour at Highway Bridges course provides participants with comprehensive training in the prevention of hydraulic-related bridge failures. Course participants will receive training in conducting a stream stability classification and qualitative analysis of stream response and make estimates...

Lead by West Consultants, this hands-on seminar and computer workshop provides practical training in sediment transport modeling. We will cover the algorithms HEC-RAS uses to compute sediment transport, selecting a transport function, computing transport capacity, the quasi-unsteady flow assumption, bed mixing algorithms, bed change options, and other fundamental computations. The course will also discuss avoiding...

FEMA Certified Description: Resilient communities are better able to plan for and take action to mitigate the risks from hazards, increase the pace of recovery from destructive events, and adapt to changing environments. This course demonstrates how to integrate risk and community-based collaborative strategies into plans and programs and introduces tools that help communities assess...