2024 Section Conference
Spokane, WA
May 1-3 2024
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The Northwest’s largest conference and trade show for drinking water professionals.
Training Opportunities
Water System Operator Workshop
0.6 CEUs
$135 member rate
Town of Friday Harbor Old Fire Station
260 West Street, Friday Harbor, WA 98250
Chlorine Residual Testing and Lab Skills for Water Operators
0.3 CEUs
$60 member rate
City of Yakima
Public Works Training Room
2301 Fruitvale Blvd
Yakima, WA 98902
Northwest Oregon Subsection Waterworks School
2.0 CEUs
$160 - $400 member rate
Clackamas Community College
19600 Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, OR 97045
No events scheduled at this time
Synergizing the Water Industry with Technology
0.4 CEUs
$80 member price
Environmental Services Building
9850 64th St W, University Place, WA 98467
Or Virtually
2024 Western Washington Short School & Trade Show
1.3 CEUs
$135 - $270 member rate
Lynnwood Events Center
3711 196th Street SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036
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.
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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