James Boag
McMillen, Inc.

Kenny Dosanjh
HDR

DESCRIPTION

This session will focus on the most critical component of a safety operated dam.  Panel members will convey how to analyze the condition, operating ability, and integrity of spillgates including seismic considerations and provide an overview of recent rehabilitation projects.

This Panel is within the Technical, Dam Safety, and Engineering Track at the conference. 
 
This is a general interest topic relevant to anyone working in the Northwest.  

Moderator:
Ali Reza Firoozfar, Seattle City Light

Panelists:

• James Boag, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Dams Market Lead, McMillen, Inc
• Nathan Higga, Civil Engineer, PacifiCorp
• Kenny Dosanjh, Hydraulic Structures Practice Lead, HDR

Speaker Bios:

• James Boag is a principal mechanical engineer and McMillen's Dams Market Lead with 22-years’ of experience in water resources engineering. His entire career has focused on hydropower, fish passage, and water control structures engineering and project management. James has been involved with the scoping, design, and construction of numerous spillway gate upgrades and replacements over his career and has seen the acceleration of spillway rehabilitation projects based on age and condition throughout the industry.
• Nathan Higga- Degree BS-CE Water Resources University of Southern California, 10 years USACE, 1 year Tetra Tech, 17.5 years PacifiCorp
• Kenny Dosanjh has more than 20 years of experience in the inspection, analysis, design, and retrofit of water resources and hydropower related structures. His experience includes retrofits and replacements of various spillway gate types including radial gates, vertical lift gates, miter gates, sector gates, sluice gates, and inflatable gates. Kenny has performed over 1,000 hydraulic structures inspections for dam owners across the country, including the CA DWR, USACE, PG&E, Southern Company, Southern California Edison (SCE), PCWA, Brookfield Renewable Power, PacifiCorp, Duke Energy, Seattle City Light, the Lower Colorado River Authority, Tacoma Power and the Cascade Water Authority. Kenny has managed multidiscipline teams including structural, mechanical, electrical and civil engineers to deliver successful spillway gate replacement and retrofit projects throughout the country. Kenny has participated in multiple FERC Part 12 Dam Safety projects, Comprehensive Assessments (CA), Periodic Inspections (PI), PFM Analyses, Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessment (SQRA) Level 2 Risk Analyses, and has been approved as a FERC Independent Consultant (IC).