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
Building Resilience in Your Organization
0.7 CEUs
$100 early bird member rate
Alderwood Water & Wastewater District
3626 156th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98087
Math for Operators & Reading P&IDs Workshop
0.6 CEU's Water and Wastewater
$80 Member Rate
Mukilteo Water & Wastewater District Offices
7824 Mukilteo Speedway
Mukilteo, WA 98275
Building Resilience in Your Organization
0.7 CEUs
$100 early bird member rate
Alderwood Water & Wastewater District
3626 156th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98087
2019 OWUC Legislative Symposium
$25
Local Government Center
1201 Court St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Building Resilience in Your Organization
0.7 CEUs
$100 early bird member rate
Alderwood Water & Wastewater District
3626 156th Street SW
Lynnwood, WA 98087
IESS-AWWA Ductile Iron Pipe Class
0.6 Washington Water CEU's, Wastewater pending
$115 member rate
Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District
22510 E. Mission Ave.
Liberty Lake, WA 99019
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
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