Identifying Hazards and Improving Public Safety at Low Head Dams

Paul Schweiger, P.E., CFM
Vice President, Gannett Fleming
207 Senate Avenue
Camp Hill, PA 17011
717/763-7211
[email protected]

Paul is a Vice President of Gannett Fleming, Inc., and principal project manager in the firm’s Dams and Hydraulics Section. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.  He has 28 years of experience working on dams and flood control projects.  His technical specialties include hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for dams, conducting dam assessments, dam rehabilitation, and designing fish passage facilities.  Paul is an approved FERC facilitator for performing failure modes analysis exercises for dams and has served as an expert hydrology and hydraulics engineer on Independent External Peer Review panels for USACE DSAC I dams.  Paul regularly conducts Dam Owner and other Training Seminars for ASDSO.


Dr. Bruce A. Tschantz, P.E.
Professor Emeritus – Univ. of Tennessee
1508 Meeting House Rd.
Knoxville, TN  37931
865.531.5624
[email protected]

Bruce A. Tschantz, P.E., is Professor Emeritus in the University of Tennessee’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, where he taught water resources engineering for 37 years.  Dr. Tschantz is currently a Senior Research Associate for the Tennessee Water Resources Research Center and a consulting engineer in Knoxville.  He established FEMA’s Office of Federal Dam Safety where he served as the first Chief of Federal Dam Safety in 1980.  Dr. Tschantz has made many presentations and written several articles on the hydraulics and public safety at low head dams; he has also provided expert testimony related to drownings at low head dams.  He is an Honorary Member in ASDSO, an ASCE Fellow, and is a registered engineer in Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia and Alabama.