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AWWA AWARDS
EXEMPLARY SOURCE WATER
PROTECTION AWARD OWWA, A Section of AWWA—
Nick Benkovich
Tuesday Keynote Session Ohio—Karen Hawkins
Very Large System Pacific Northwest—Bill Evans
Albuquerque Bernalillo County
Water Utility Authority
Rocky Mountain Section Puerto Rico—Exel F. Colon Rivera, PE
Pennsylvania—Steve E. Tagert
Québec—Christian Sauvageau
Large System Rocky Mountain—Mike Berry
Clackamas River Providers
Pacific Northwest Section South Carolina—Douglas B. Kinard
Small System
South Dakota—Tanya Miller
Southwest—Patty Thomspon
Division III: OWWA
Division IV: Chesapeake Section
Division V: Missouri Section
Division VI: British Columbia Section
Division VII: Mexico Section
Diamond Pin Recruitment Awards
AWWA Awards & Section Recognition
Celebration
Presented to a member who has recruited
25 members over a 2-year period.
Rock County Rural Water District
Minnesota Section Texas—Jennifer L. Elms Armando Apodaca, California-
Nevada Section
GEORGE WARREN
FULLER AWARDS Virginia—Jeanne Bennett-Bailey Nicholas S. Hill, Jr. Award
West Virginia—Louis Wooten AWWA Awards & Section Recognition
Celebration
Fuller Award Breakfast
Atlantic Canada—Douglas Brownrigg
Alabama-Mississippi—Hugh Smith, Jr.
Alaska—Floyd Damron, PE
Arizona—Marie S. Pearthree
British Columbia—Len Clarkson
California-Nevada—Dr. Issam Najm
California-Nevada—Joe Guistino
Chesapeake—Rudy Chow
Connecticut—Stephen Pratt
Florida—Carl Larrabee, Jr., PE
Georgia—Brian Skeens
Hawaii—no winner for 2018
Illinois—Mike Ramsey
Western Canada—Calvin Sexsmith
Wisconsin—Patrick S. Planton Presented to the Section with the highest
percentage net growth in the award year.
HONORARY MEMBER AWARDS North Dakota Section
Francisco Cantu Ramos (deceased),
Mexico Section OUTSTANDING
SERVICE TO AWWA
Opening General Session
Opening General Session
JACK W. HOFFBUHR AWARD Gary Lynch, California-Nevada Section
Priscilla “Peggy” Guingona, Florida Section Opening General Session
DR. JOHN L. LEAL AWARD 5 Year Excellence in Water Treatment
(Phase IV)
Daniel Oerther, Missouri Section Chester Water Authority
Octoraro Water Treatment Plant
Nottingham, Pennsylvania
AWWA Awards & Section Recognition
Celebration
Opening General Session
JOHN LECHNER AWARD
PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Indiana—Martin (Marty) A. Wessler Opening General Session Intermountain—Gerard Yates Chris Hodgson, New England Section PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Iowa—Robert (Bob) Green MEMBERSHIP AWARDS Helix Water, California-Nevada Section
Kansas—James Epp Zenno A. Gorder Award
Kentucky-Tennessee—Lori Sanborn Opening General Session
Mexico—Florentino Ayala Vazquez Michigan—Timothy D. McNamara Presented to the recruiter who brings in
the most members within one year.
Minnesota—Patrick Shea Volunteer—Randy Lusk, Illinois Section
Missouri—Jim Urfer Section Staff—Armando Apodaca,
California-Nevada Section
Montana—Jeffrey M. Ashley, PE
NEWWA, A Section of AWWA—Stephen
Estes-Smargiassi
Nebraska—Robert Pierce
Club Seven Awards
AWWA Awards & Section Recognition
Celebration
New York—William Becker Presented to the Section with the highest
percentage of new members per division
in the award year.
North Carolina—Vicki Westbrook Division I: Texas Section
New Jersey—Stephen Blankenship
North Dakota—Dr. Wei Lin
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Division II: Illinois Section
Opening General Session
The Regional Municipality of York, OWWA,
a Section of AWWA
PUBLICATIONS AWARD
Opening General Session
Assessment of HAA9 Occurrence
and THM, HAA Speciation in the
United States
Carleigh C. Samson, Chad J. Seidel,
R. Scott Summers, and Timothy Bartrand
Scale Formation Under Blended
Phosphate Treatment for a Utility with
Lead Pipes
Lauren W. Wasserstrom, Stephanie A.
Miller, Simoni Triantafyllidou, Michael K.
DeSantis, and Michael R. Schock