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
Asbestos Cement Pipe Work Procedures
0.7 CEUs
$95 member price
Skagit County Public Utility District No. 1 Office
1415 Freeway Drive
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Water Storage Basics Workshop
0.7 CEUs
$80 member rate includes lunch
Burlington Public Library Meeting Room
820 E Washington Ave
Burlington, WA 98233
2019 Eastern Oregon Operators Conference
2.0 CEU's water and wastewater
$250 early bird rate
Pendleton Convention Center
1601 Westgate
Pendleton, OR 97801
Cascade to Coast Short School
2.0 CEU's water and wastewater
$350 member rate
Linn County Expo Center
Albany, OR
Drinking Water Operator Training
0.6 CEU's Approved
$60 member rate
Suez Water Idaho
8248 W Victory Rd
(park in the back lot off of Saturn Dr)
Boise, ID 83709
No events scheduled at this time
Sectional Conference
Vancouver, WA
May 1-3, 2019
Registration for the 2019 Vancouver Conference is Open!
Don’t miss the largest conference for water professionals in the Pacific Northwest!
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
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Get Involved
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