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
Pump Station O&M Workshop
0.6 CEUs for water and wastewater
$85 member rate
Cotton Building
607 Water Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Western Washington Short School & Trade Show
1.2 CEUs
$220 Member Rate
Lynnwood Convention Center
3711 196th ST SW
Lynnwood, WA 98036
Emergency Preparedness
0.7 CEUs
$90 member rate
Eugene Water and Electric Board
4200 Roosevelt Blvd.
Eugene, OR. 97402
Northwest Oregon Subsection AWWA Waterworks School 2019
2.0 CEUs Approved - Oregon
$245.00 after Monday, June 17, 2019
Clackamas Community College
19600 Molalla Ave
Community Center--Fireside Lounge
Oregon City, OR 97045
No events scheduled at this time
No events scheduled at this time
Leadership Symposium
Yakima, WA
September 26 - 27, 2019
The Northwest’s premier leadership opportunity for drinking water professionals.
Our new Leadership Symposium will provide the management skills needed for those seeking career advancement.
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.
Get Involved
Volunteering at PNWS is fun and easy! Learn how you can get involved, support our great organization, and network with some great people in your industry!
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