Please save the dates for our 44th Annual Workshop in Lake Placid, May 22-24, 2023!

Associate Members and Exhibitors:

Thank you to our Associate Members and Exhibitors, we have sold out of booth space at our annual event in May. Thank you all so much for your support, we couldn't do it without you!

To be placed on a waiting list, please email Cheryl Kearns at kearns@nyruralwater.org.

Please click here to see a complete list of our exhibitors.

Thank you to our current paid sponsors:

Premier Sponsors
Koester Associates, Inc. - Siewert Equipment / E/One Sewer Systems

Gold Sponsors
AES Northeast - EJ Prescott - G.A. Fleet - General Control Systems - Naylor Association Solutions

Silver Sponsors
Surpass Chemical Company

Attendees: The agenda including registration form is available on the website.
Deadline to pre-register is May 2, 2023!
 

Hotel accomodations can be made through the central reservation system: 
https://reservations.meetingslakeplacid.com/conferences/2023-rural-water

We would like to welcome two new employees to our team. Sean McCarthy has joined NYRWA as a Wastewater Trainer/Technician and will be providing training and technical assistance to our valued wastewater systems in central and western NY. Sean comes with a wealth of experience and training in both the water and wastewater industries. Sean can be reached at mccarthy@nyruralwater.org.

We also recently welcomed Mary Theresa Julien, or MJ as she likes to be called, as our new Source Water Protection Specialist. MJ has a well-rounded background of both education and experience that make her well-suited to assist communities in the development of their Source Water Protection Plans. She has already met and coordinated with several communities who have requested assistance with the development and implementation of their plans. If you have questions or would like to schedule with MJ, please email her at julien@nyruralwater.org.

We are excited to have both Sean and MJ join our team and look forward to their future success within our association!

As many of you are aware, we retired our home study initial certification course platform effective December 30, 2022.

In an effort to continue to serve our membership, our staff worked diligently to develop initial certification courses for both Grade C & D water operation specialists. The new classroom-based courses are approved by the NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Water Supply Protection, and meet the most current standards as identified in the model curriculum. Our thanks to the NYSDOH personnel for their expedient yet thorough review and approval of our course materials.

To our members…we appreciate your patience and understanding as we completed this transition. We have a Grade D course already scheduled and plan to offer (2) more courses in 2023 that will accept both Grade C & D students. Please keep an eye on our website training page for more information https://www.nyruralwater.org/training/classroom-training

Have you received water and/or wastewater technical assistance from NYRWA? Have you attended NYRWA in-person or web-based training? Has your system benefited from a Source Water Protection Plan or Energy Efficiency Assessment from NYRWA? If so, WE NEED YOUR HELP!  NYRWA is respectfully asking our system members to draft and submit letters of support for the services you have received. These letters are crucial so we can deliver your message to our elected representatives that more needs to be done to fund water and wastewater infrastructure. Please, we need as many members as possible to draft the support letters on your letterhead and mail to our office at:

NYRWA, Inc.
PO Box 487
Claverack, NY 12513

Let's make this letter writing campaign a huge success, please participate. We thank you in advance for your consideration.

This year, many of our one-day training sessions are free to attend. We ask that when you are submitting your pre-registration forms that you complete them in their entirety, as we need all the information to process your registration. We appreciate your time and effort in submitting fully complete registration forms. There will not be an invoice sent for these free classes. We would like to ask that if you are unable to attend a training session, even the free classes, that you email our office (nyrwa@nyruralwater.org) to cancel at least three business days prior to the date of the class you are registered to attend. This will allow us to contact another student so they can attend and receive their needed contact hours. 

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