Southbay Engineers Club Monthly Luncheon
Friday May 12, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
at
Spin-A-Yarn Restaurant, 45915 Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont
Friday May 12, 2017
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
at
Spin-A-Yarn Restaurant, 45915 Warm Springs Blvd., Fremont
Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit Project – Morgan Hill
Presentation by Katherine Oven, P.E., Santa Clara Valley Water District
Katherine will be presenting the Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit Project that the District initiated in 2012, and which is currently in the design and environmental documentation phase. Anderson Reservoir is a critical element of the District’s water supply portfolio. It can hold about 90,000 acre-feet of water, more than the combined storage of the other nine reservoirs that the District owns and operates in Santa Clara County. It has been determined, from recent design-level investigations, that a more extensive embankment retrofit will be necessary than originally planned, which will double the estimated project cost from $200M to $400M. Anderson Dam has also received a significant amount of scrutiny since the February 2017 flood event along Coyote Creek in San Jose. Katherine’s presentation will touch on the District’s reservoir operations this past winter.
Our Presenter: Katherine Oven is the Deputy Operating Officer of the Water Utility Capital Division at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Her current duties include oversight for the planning, design, and construction of capital projects for the District’s $2.3 billion Water Supply Capital Program, and preparation of the annual update of the District’s Five-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The District’s water supply capital program is heavily investing in rehabilitation of existing infrastructure such as surface water treatment plants, raw and treated water pipelines, pump stations, and dam seismic retrofits. The District is also developing the expansion of advanced purified water facilities to recycle treated wastewater for potable reuse.
Ms. Oven has over 30 years of experience in water resources engineering in both the private and public sector and been at the District for 15 years. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Santa Clara University and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from teh Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of ASCE, APWA, and a registered engineer in the State of California.
Presentation by Katherine Oven, P.E., Santa Clara Valley Water District
Katherine will be presenting the Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit Project that the District initiated in 2012, and which is currently in the design and environmental documentation phase. Anderson Reservoir is a critical element of the District’s water supply portfolio. It can hold about 90,000 acre-feet of water, more than the combined storage of the other nine reservoirs that the District owns and operates in Santa Clara County. It has been determined, from recent design-level investigations, that a more extensive embankment retrofit will be necessary than originally planned, which will double the estimated project cost from $200M to $400M. Anderson Dam has also received a significant amount of scrutiny since the February 2017 flood event along Coyote Creek in San Jose. Katherine’s presentation will touch on the District’s reservoir operations this past winter.
Our Presenter: Katherine Oven is the Deputy Operating Officer of the Water Utility Capital Division at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Her current duties include oversight for the planning, design, and construction of capital projects for the District’s $2.3 billion Water Supply Capital Program, and preparation of the annual update of the District’s Five-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP). The District’s water supply capital program is heavily investing in rehabilitation of existing infrastructure such as surface water treatment plants, raw and treated water pipelines, pump stations, and dam seismic retrofits. The District is also developing the expansion of advanced purified water facilities to recycle treated wastewater for potable reuse.
Ms. Oven has over 30 years of experience in water resources engineering in both the private and public sector and been at the District for 15 years. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Santa Clara University and a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from teh Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of ASCE, APWA, and a registered engineer in the State of California.