Office of the Director
The Director oversees a staff of 30+ engineers and technicians responsible for executing the mission of the DSMMCX. Additional roles of the Director include:
- Chair of the DSPC Management Group
- Member of the Dams Senior Oversight Group
- Member of the Dam Safety Steering Committee
Contact: (304) 399-5026
Hydrology & Hydraulics and Technical Support Division
This office is staffed with national experts in:
- Hydraulic design of dam spillways and outlet works
- Hydrologic modeling and consequence analysis
- Cost Engineering
- Construction scheduling
- Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis
- Portfolio Wide Data Management and Analysis
- Dam Safety construction engineering
Contact: (304) 399-5017
Geotechnical Division
This office is staffed with geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and technicians with a number of dam safety related areas of expertise including:
- Embankment dam seepage and stability analyses
- Design of seepage and stability remediation features
- Rock mechanics and stability of concrete structures founded on rock
- Prestressed rock anchors
- Foundation grouting
- Concrete materials
- Subsurface investigations
- Geologic site characterization
- Geotechnical laboratory testing
- Rock excavation
- Earthwork construction
- Fracture flow and uplift
- Geotechnical instrumentation
Contact: (304) 399-5016
General Engineering Division
This office is staffed with Civil and Structural Engineers and technicians with a number of dam safety related areas of expertise including:
- Reinforced and mass concrete hydraulic structures
- Design, analysis, evaluation and rehabilitation of mass concrete, roller compacted concrete and concrete arch dams
- Design, analysis, evaluation and rehabilitation of Hydraulic Steel Structures
- Formulation of alternatives and construction sequencing
- Civil/site design and layout
Contact: (304) 399-5018
Management Support Division
Contact: (304) 399-5109