Think Water. Think AWWA.
The members of the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association are the stewards and protectors of our water.
Training Opportunities
2017 Basic Waterworks Workshop
0.6 CEU's Approved
$78 member price
Public Works Building Conference Room
1400 NE 16th AV
Oak Harbor, WA 98277
Emergency Preparedness Workshop
0.7
$80 Member Rate
Depot Arts & Community Center
611 R Avenue
Anacortes, WA 98221
No Bad Bugs: Protecting Your Water System from Microbial Contaminants
FREE
Wildlife Center Riparian Room
Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge
19255 SW Pacific Highway (99W) • Sherwood, OR 97140
Young Professionals Summit
FREE
Brightwater Center
22505 State Route 9 SE
Woodinville, WA 98072
Free Webinar – Regulating Rates that Fund Customer Assistance Programs at Small Water Systems
FREE
Sectional Conference
Tacoma, WA
April 25 - 27, 2018
Mark Your Calendars for the 2018 Tacoma Conference
Don’t miss the largest conference for water professionals in the Pacific Northwest!
The Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center
Community Engineer Corps
Featured Project
Southwest Washington Elementary School Project
As founding members of the Community Engineering Corps, AWWA members volunteer their time and expertise to assist communities that do not have the resources to access engineering services for vital infrastructure projects. This year, the Pacific Northwest Section of the AWWA is working with a Southwest Washington Elementary School to improve the water system one of their elementary schools.
The school’s drinking water showed issues with lead and copper, so the district hired a firm to study the situation and propose solutions. Their recommendations required significant cost and technical expertise. As a very small school with limited technical and financial resources, this was a huge issue. While the school and district leadership were extremely concerned with the problem and cared deeply for students and faculty, water operations were not their core competency. The Community Engineering Corps is working toward a simpler and/or lower cost solution to help ensure that the drinking water is safe and reliable.
Professional Operators
“A university degree is accepted widely because everybody knows what goes into it and how hard it is to get one of those. We don’t have university degree programs for professional operators, but we do have the ABC Professional Operator certification, and it’s an equivalent. By the time somebody gets to Class IV, they have the equivalent amount of classroom time, they have nearly a decade of experience, and they’ve passed several very difficult examinations that get increasingly harder as you go up. And by maintaining the certificate, they’ve made a commitment to continuing education.”
Cheryl Capron, PO, Seattle Public Utilities, Seattle, WA
Members Group
Check out the sub-sites for topics and location-based committees and subsections. They provide more information and opportunities to participate.
Reports and Manuals
PNWS offers a handful of services from job postings to Cross Connection Control Manuals to Backflow Assembly Test Report Books and free downloadable PDFs.
Featured Partners
