IAMU is proud of all of its members and what they do for their communities. We’d like to give special recognition to those members who received American Water Works Association (AWWA) Operator of the Year Awards this year.

Region 1:

• Travis Bagby, Lisbon
• Chester Lief, Olin
• Mike Pape, Edgewood

Region 4:

• Tim Collison, Little Sioux

Region 5:

• Terry Danielson, Redfield

Note: Recipients from Region 2 and Region 3 will be announced this fall.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new web-based portal called the Water Finance Clearinghouse to help communities make informed financing decisions for their drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure needs.

The Clearinghouse includes a searchable database with more than $10 billion in water funding sources and more than 550 resources to support local water infrastructure projects.

The Water Finance Clearinghouse gives local decision makers an opportunity to search for available funding sources for water infrastructure as well as resources (such as reports, webpages, and webinars) on financing mechanisms and approaches that can help communities access capital to meet their water infrastructure needs. State, federal, local, and foundation funding sources and resources on public-private partnerships, asset management practices, revenue models, and affordability approaches are included in the Clearinghouse.

For more information on the Clearinghouse, click here.

To register for a webinar about how to use the Clearinghouse, click here.

IAMU will be hosting the 2017 Water Distribution Training and Water Leak Detection/Line Locating Workshops, September 6^th & 7^th, 2017.

0.6 CEUs will be available each day for Water Distribution.

For more information, and to register, click here.

Hope to see you there!