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.
Congratulations Brenda Lennox, AWWA President!
Training Opportunities
Utility Asset Management Practices
.6 CEUs pending
$90 for Members / $115 for Non-Members
Bellevue Service Center
2901 115th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
FREE – RCAP/AWWA Operator Training: Achieve and Maintain Compliance with the SDWA
CEU's pending
FREE
Pierce County Environmental Services Building
University Place, WA
2017 Safe Handling of Asbestos Cement Pipe for Water Operators
0.8 CEU's
$80 member price
Roseburg, OR
FREE – AWWA’s Cybersecurity Guidance Tool For The Water Sector – Oregon
CEU's Pending
Beaverton, OR
No events scheduled at this time
Social Media Virtual Forum
$10 for Members | $20 for Non-members
Sponsored by the Public Information Committee
Sectional Conference
Tacoma, WA
April 24 - 27, 2018
Submit Your Abstract for the 2018 Tacoma Conference
Interested in presenting at the 2018 PNWS-AWWA Annual Conference? We are currently accepting abstracts. The deadline to submit your abstract form is July 31.
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
