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FWEA/FSAWWA Golf Tournaments on the
Horizon
Three chapters of the Florida Water Environment Association will host
benefit golf tournaments during September and October.
CENTRAL FLORIDA
CHAPTER
The Central Florida Chapter’s annual Scholarship Golf Tournament will be
held at the Shingle Creek Golf Club in
Orlando on September 5. This year’s tournament will
be held in conjunction with the FWEA Fall Seminar. Proceeds benefit the Gabe
Delneky Scholarship Fund and the Norm Casey Scholarship Fund. Contact Kristi
Sinykin at
KSinykin@BoyleEngineering.com for
details.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
CHAPTER
The Southwest Florida Chapter’s seventh annual FWEA/FSAWWA Golf
Tournament will be held on September 26 at Heritage Palms in
Fort Myers, with a shotgun start at
1 p.m.
Cost is $70 per person, and sponsorships are still available. Proceeds from
the tournament benefit the Florida Gulf Coast University Endowment Fund. For
registration information, contact Ivan Velez by e-mail at
velezsi@leegov.com or by phone at 239-533-8166. Registration
deadline is September 22.
TREASURE COAST CHAPTER
The Treasure Coast Chapter will hold its fourth annual FSAWWA/FWEA Joint
Scholarship Golf Tournament on October 10 at Hammock Creek Golf Club in
Palm
City. Proceeds benefit the
Roy Likins Scholarship, Water For People, and the Norm Casey Scholarship.
For details contact Jennifer Porter at
Jennifer-P@BoyleEngineering.com.
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FWPCOA Region VIII to Host
Water/Wastewater Exposition
Because municipal fund cutbacks kept many people in
FWPCOA Region VIII (Collier, Lee, Charlotte,
Glades, Desoto, & Hendry counties) from attending the Florida Water Resource
Conference, the inaugural Region VIII Water & Wastewater Exposition
has been scheduled for the Harborside
Convention Center in downtown Fort Myers on September
9. Doors will open from 10 a.m.-6
p.m. The show is free to all attendees. There will be finger
foods provided and many door prizes.
Courses will be offered for CEU credit in two
sessions. The morning session features a choice between “Control Panels” and
“Blueprints 101: The Art of Reading & Understanding Blueprints.” The
afternoon session offers a choice between “Pumps & Blowers” and “Cross
Connection Control: Hazard Assessment.” All classes are $65 for FWPCOA
members and $90 for nonmembers. For details see the exposition advertisement
in the August and September issues of the
Florida Water Resources Journal.
Booth space is available for vendors that supply
equipment and services to the water and wastewater industry. For exhibitor
registration fees and forms, contact Region VIII Director Jeffrey Poteet at
239-389-5181. Registration deadline is August 28.
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Technical Symposium Set on River Study
Registration is under way for the St. Johns River Water
Management District’s technical symposium on the first phase of the
district’s investigation of potential cumulative effects of surface water
withdrawals from the St. Johns
and Ocklawaha rivers.
The meeting, hosted by the University of Florida Water Institute, will be held
from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on
Sept. 17 and 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
on Sept. 18 at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center at
1714 S.W. 34th St. in Gainesville.
Pre-registration is required on a first-come, first-served basis because of
potential space limitations. Visit the district’s Web site at
http://www.sjrwmd.com/surfacewaterwithdrawals/symposium.html
for registration instructions.
The meeting is free and open to the public, although
members of the public who want to participate in lunch and coffee breaks
must pay $138 for two days.
The symposium will offer the technical working groups
that are conducting the study an opportunity to become more fully aware of
all of the interrelated aspects of the study, share technical information,
and exchange ideas. The agenda will feature presentations by the lead
scientists and members of seven technical working groups conducting the
preliminary investigations, followed by research group discussion.
To accommodate members of the public unable to attend
the meeting, the district will provide live video on the Internet of the
presentations and group discussions at
www.sjrwmd.com/surfacewaterwithdrawals/symposium.html. For those who
do not have access to the Internet, the live video will be available at
district headquarters in Palatka.
Public comment will be invited at the end of each day’s
proceedings. Comment cards will be available throughout the meeting for
members of the public wishing to provide written comments, or comments may
be e-mailed to the district during and after the symposium. Prior to the
symposium, a link to an e-mail address for submitting comments will be
available on the district’s Web site.
To learn more about potential surface water withdrawals
and the cumulative impact assessment, visit the district online at
www.sjrwmd.com/surfacewaterwithdrawals.
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FWPCOA
Region VII September
Short School
Region VII of the Florida Water & Pollution Control Operators
Association will conduct a
September Short School
offering the following intermediate and advanced courses:
- Supervision
(Water Distribution Level 1, Wastewater Collection A, Stormwater A)
- Water
Distribution Level 2
- Wastewater
Collection Level B
All courses are eight evenings long from
6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
(supervision courses end at 9:45
p.m.
Classes will be held September 8-11 and September 15-18, with an
end-of-course exam at 8 a.m.
on Saturday, September 20.
No course books will be sold at the school. For
information on obtaining books, contact the FWPCOA Training Office at
321-433-0081. The school information package, including applications and
course schedules, is available online at
http://www.fwpcoa.org/regional/meet_events.php?id=7. Click on “Schools,”
then on the September
School announcement. Mail
the original applications (no copies of faxes), required attachments and the
school tuition fee to:
FWPCOA Region VII
P.O. Box 813520
Hollywood FL
33081-3520
Enrollment is first-come, first-served, and is limited
to 25 students per course. Applications must be postmarked by August 22.
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All Aboard for
Caribbean
Holiday Cruise
Region 7 of the Florida Water & Pollution
Control Operators Association will sponsor an eight-night holiday cruise in
December to the Eastern Caribbean for
members of the Florida
water and wastewater industry, their families and friends.
Participants don't have to be a member of Region 7 or
even a member of the FWPCOA to join the cruise. Members of the FWEA and
FSAWWA are invited, along with other water/wastewater professionals in the
state. Those who sign up are welcome to bring their families and friends
from outside the industry.
The trip aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's new
Independence of the Seas will
begin Saturday, December 13, from Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades and return
Sunday, December 21. In addition to three full days at sea, the voyage will
feature visits to four Caribbean ports: San Juan, Puerto Rico;
Charlotte Amalie,
St. Thomas; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; and the cruise
line's private desert island beach resort in Labadee, Haiti.
Basic cabin rates start at $799 per person double
occupancy and are even lower in cabins that can accommodate families of
three or more. There is also a special group $100-per-cabin onboard credit
that can be used aboard ship or for shore excursions.
Travelers must make a deposit to hold their
reservation. Deposits are fully refundable until October 6 if plans change.
Travel agent Sam Guess at Peter Berlin's Travel Center
in Pompano Beach
can detail any government taxes and fuel surcharges that may apply.
For detailed information on the trip, visit the FWPCOA
Region 7 Web site or access the Web page directly at
www.members.aol.com/ExtraFileSpace. For questions about the reservation
process, contact Sam Guess toll-free at 800-874-6040.
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Web Site Focuses on Utility Regulation
An important online resource for utility policy makers is titled
the Body of Knowledge on Utility Regulation at
www.regulationbodyofknowledge.org.
This Web site provides summaries of and links to more than 300 reference
sites on utility policy, along with an 80-page glossary and self-testing
features to facilitate learning. References include publications and
decisions by regulatory agencies and other governmental bodies; policy
advisories by think tanks, consultants, and donor agencies; and research by
academics, consultants, and other experts.
Developed by the University of Florida's Public Utility
Research Center in collaboration with the University of Toulouse, the
Pontificia Universidad Catolica, the World Bank, and a panel of
international experts, the site has been engineered to as functional on a
15-year-old computer with a dial-up connection to the Internet as it is on a
new computer with a broadband connection. It is designed to be equally
accessible those using Windows, Linux, or MacOS systems, viewing on a
regular computer monitor or a mobile phone screen, or read aloud by screen
reading software for the visually impaired.
The site is funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility. Suggestions for additions to the learning system are
appreciated. For details contact Sanford Berg, professor at the Public
Utility Research Center, at
sanford.berg@cba.ufl.edu.
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Looking for Answers? Here Are the
Questions
Are you new to the water and wastewater field? Want to boost your
knowledge about topics you'll face each day as a water/wastewater
professional?
Each month's issue of the Florida Water Resources Journal
features "Certification
Boulevard," a popular question-and-answer column
for treatment plant operators. Past editions of "Certification Boulevard" back through the
year 2000 are available on the Florida Water Environment Association's Web
site at the following Internet address.
http://www.fwea.org/cms/index.cfm?primarykeylist=,234,248,264,1756
This address is a Web page titled "Quizzes and Case
Studies." All
"Certification
Boulevard" questions and answers back to January
2006 are posted on this page. Near the top left corner of the page above the
"Quizzes and Case Studies" title, click on the phrase 'Archives CBTS' to
access all editions of
"Certification
Boulevard" dating back to the year 2000.
