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