A Dam Conversation

About A Dam Conversation

The Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) is a national non-profit association dedicated to dam safety issues. Our mission is to Improve the condition and safety of dams and lower the risk of dam failures through education, support for state dam safety programs, and fostering a unified dam safety community. A Dam Conversation With… is a podcast from ASDSO sharing the stories of leaders and innovators in the dam safety community.

Publisher

The Association of State Dam Safety Officials

Category

business · government · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Sept 2024

Latest episode

14 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

20 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Jul 2026

   Welcome to A Dam Conversation With... Guy Lund!

   This is an Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) podcast sharing the stories of leaders and innovators in the dam safety community. Your host today is Jeremy Begley. Today, Jeremy welcomes Guy Lund. Guy is a civil structural engineer with over 40 years of experience specializing in dam safety, analysis, design, and inspection of concrete dams and pertinent structures. His expertise includes gravity, roller compacted concrete, or RCC, arch, multiple arch, and buttress dam types. Th...

2. 

   31 May 2026

   A Dam Conversation… The 1977 Kelly Barnes Dam Failure in Toccoa Falls, Georgia.

   This is an Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) podcast highlighting the people, projects, and stories shaping dam safety today. In this episode, we discuss the Kelly Barnes Dam Failure. The Kelly Barnes Dam was a 38-foot-high earth-fill dam built atop a rock crib dam, located just north of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Stephens County, Georgia. Downstream of the dam was Toccoa Falls, a 186-foot waterfall, and beyond that was the college. Between the 2nd and 5th of No...

3. 

   27 Apr 2026

   Welcome to A Dam Conversation With... Phoebe Percell-Dantes Taureau!

   This is an Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) podcast sharing the stories of leaders and innovators in the dam safety community. Your host for this episode is Nicole Mathis, P.E. In this episode, we welcome Phoebe Percell-Dantes Taureau, an expert in Risk Management and Program Management for the two largest dam safety programs in the world. She served as Deputy Director for the Office of Security, Safety, and Law Enforcement at the US Bureau of Reclamation and Chief of t...

Who has been a guest on A Dam Conversation

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Bill Kappel
• David Griffin
• Doug Boyer

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YouTube views

442,620

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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