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Celebrating 20 Years of Texas Water! | Post Conference 2015 | TEXThe Official Newsletter of the Texas Section S AWWA | Everyh2o Drop, Every Day, Everywhere© Celebrating 20 Years of Texas Water! Clockwise: Mariachis entertain guests at the Night at the Aquarium ● Chair-Elect Daniel Nix, Chair Jennifer Elms, Immediate Past Chair Alissa Lockett, Vice-Chair Bruce Curtis and AWWA Director Dave Scholler ● Texas Water celebrated 20 years in Corpus Christi ● Outgoing Texas Section Chair Alissa Lockett passes the gavel to incoming Chair Jennifer Elms ● Former Rep. Bill Callegari, TAWWA Executive Director Mike Howe and Katie McCain ● AWWA President John Donahue congratulates Universal City for winning the Best Tasting Drinking Water Contest ● Teams race to tap a pipe in the Pipe Tapping competition ● Mayor of Corpus Christi Nelda Martinez speaks during the Women of Texas Water Lunch ● J.R. Reavis and Roberto Amezquita congratulate the City of Fort Worth Top Ops Team for winning the close competition. AWWAIndia | TW15 Award Winners | Calendar | and more! 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All Rights Reserved. 422SSC041014 | fuller award | Ron Tamada Surprised with Fuller Award on Tamada received the prestigious George Warren Fuller Award at the Texas Water 2015TM Conference RLunch in Corpus Christi. Tamada, an engineer with the Trinity River Authority, has worked on projects throughout Texas and around the country. He is known as one of the premier water and wastewater engineers in our profession and has earned a reputation for openness and fairness. Tamada, who serves as Chair of the Texas Section Diversity Committee, was awarded with the AWWA Diversity Award in 2014 for his achievements in creating an environment that recognizes, encourages and effectively utilizes everyone's talents. The award recipient is selected by previous Fuller Previous Fuller Award winners surprise Ron Tamada at the winners to recognize distinguished service to the water Texas Water 2015TM conference luncheon. The winner of the supply field in commemoration of the contributions of award is kept secret until the luncheon. AWWA leader George Warren Fuller. www.tawwa.org TEXASh2o POST CONFERENCE 2015 | 3 | | letter from the texas section chair | Leadership Sets New Goals BY JENNIFER ELMS Texas Section texas section chair American Water Works Association P.O. Box 80150 Austin, Texas 78708 www.tawwa.org ongratulations to all of our dedicated volunteers! Texas Water 2015TM was a Jennifer Elms, Chair huge success as we fondly bid Corpus 713-784-4500 C Christi farewell. While those numerous volun- Daniel Nix, Chair-Elect teers are too many to name, a special thanks 940-691-1153 to Alexa Fulbright (TAWWA) and Richard Eason Bruce Curtis, Vice-Chair (WEAT) for co-chairing the Local Host Commit- 972-602-1001 tee. This year we celebrated our 20th Texas Alissa Lockett, Imm. Past Chair Water joint conference, and we look forward to 210-233-3401 continuing the tradition in Fort Worth in 2016 and another 20 years of successful conferences. Mike Howe JENNIFER I am exceptionally honored to be the TAWWA Executive Director/Secretary-Treasurer ELMS 713-784-4500 512-238-9292 Fax: 512-238-0496 Chair for the next year and am looking forward [email protected] [email protected] to an exciting and busy year. We began the year with our annual Orientation and Strategic This publication is distributed bi-monthly Planning meeting on May 8. One of the challenges that we will undertake to the more than 3,500 members and this year is a Chapter Leadership Summit. The Texas Section is what it is friends of the Texas Section – American because of our volunteers and their dedication to the water industry and Water Works Association. profession. Those volunteers come from our local chapters, and we have Contributing writers can contact the very active and successful chapters to support the Section as a whole. The editor: Chapter Leadership Summit will provide an opportunity for us to share Cliff Avery our experiences and successes, and gain insight from other Chapters to GCP Association Services find growth opportunities. We will also be ramping up to revitalize our PO Box 676 management training. A special thanks to those involved in that Pflugerville, TX 78691 512-251-8101 Fax: 512-251-8152 endeavor. [email protected] During our annual orientation, we go around the room and have everyone introduce themselves and tell us how they got involved in The publication name, TexasH2O: © 1996-2015 AWWA. Overwhelmingly, the response is “because someone asked me.” Texas Section – American Water Works Association, Inc. So here is your personal invitation. I invite you to get involved. We have numerous committees and divisions at the Chapter and Section levels © 2015 Texas Section – American Water Works Association, Inc. that are open for participation. Each of these committees are open for membership. Simply chose a group that best fits your personal interest FOLLOW TAWWA ON and contact those Chairs. Each of the Chairs for the Section are listed on FACEBOOK AND TWITTER! the website, along with their contact information. The same holds for our Chapters, and you can find those on the TAWWA website under the tab listing "Chapters." The TAWWA website holds a wealth of information. If you Texas AWWA @txawwa CONTINUED PAGE 23 | letter from the texas section chair | 4 | POST CONFERENCE 2015 TEXASh2o www.tawwa.org PREMIUMPREMIUM TANKS.TANKS. TOTALTOTAL SOLUTIONS.SOLUTIONS. 447,000 Gallon, 120 Foot Tall Standpipe - Conroe, Texas Owner: San Jacinto River Authority Engineer: AECOM, Inc. General Contractor: CSA Constructors, Inc. 408,000 Callon Potable Water Tanks - Montgomery County, Texas Owner: Bentwater Montgomery MUD Engineer: Bleyl Engineering General Contractor: Shier Construction Co. Inc. Aquastore® glass-fused-to-steel tanks. n Lowest maintenance n Never needs repainting n Guaranteed quality Over 600 tanks constructed. Each with a true partner. Texas Aquastore. Texas Aquastore ©2015 Phone 903.786.9352 • www.texas-aquastore.com | executive director report | It's Over BY MIKE HOWE tawwa executive director t’s over! on your point of view, some What’s over? were very important and ITexas Water 2015TM. Yes — and no. We are still others less so. But the working through the last post-conference details of interim process will start yet another very satisfying and, from all feedback so soon, so it’s never really over. far, successful event for our attendees and exhibitors. The drought! Again, yes Attendance was great, and aside from a few things, all and no, but ask anyone in seemed to go well. I just can’t figure out how to any part of this state and the control the weather — yet. And planning for Texas recent rains and flooding Water 2016TM is starting now, so it’s never really over. sure have brought to a close MIKE HOWE The Legislative Session. Yes, it’s over. And by mid- the most severe period of dry 512-238-9292 June, we will know which bills the Governor signed or that anyone can remember. [email protected] vetoed. There were lots of water bills, and depending As of this writing, there are areas of West Texas in the Permian Basin and pockets in the Panhandle that are still "abnormally dry," but for EXPERIENCE | SOLUTIONS | S A V I N G S the first time in quite a while, there are no red areas on the drought map. It seems that California and the Pa- Water is a Precious Resource. cific Northwest will make the drought news for a while. But, now that the drought is "over," what does that How Much Are You Losing? mean for utilities and their customers? Does it mean we end water restrictions, or just make them less l Full-service leak and water onerous? Do we throw conservation practices out the loss detection, meter evaluation, door and celebrate that the reservoirs are full? And, do underground water system assessment we stop the intense management of water supplies? and water theft detection Of course not. l 25 years experience locating and eliminating CONTINUEDTexas H20 Ad.pdf PAGE1 1/16/2015 30 1:47:08 | executive PM director report damaging and costly water loss l State-of-the-art acoustic leak detection equipment and expert staff C M Y CM MY CY Planning and Design Services for your Water System Sam Godfrey TREATMENT STORAGE DISTRIBUTION 1308 Daytona Drive Austin, TX 78733 CMY ksaeng.com | 877.572.3647 Office/Fax: 512-263-7043 K Mobile:512-751-5325 [email protected] www.samco-leakservice.com | 6 | POST CONFERENCE 2015 TEXASh2o www.tawwa.org Improving public water quality in Texas, one river at a time. As Texas grows, so does its demand for more clean water—and at lower costs. GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. announces the construction of a new water treatment chemical manufacturing facility to be built on its Deer Park, TX property by year’s end. The facility will produce new, highly active polyaluminum chloride (PAC) products to serve Texas municipalities in need of better, cost-effective solutions in clean water practices.
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