Florida Rural Water Association
2970 Wellington Circle
Tallahassee FL 32309
850.668.2746
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COMING SOON
2019 Membership Directory
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Your 2019-2020 FRWA Membership Directory should be arriving soon. Join us as we celebrate forty years of providing services to our members.
The Directory contains a complete list of services offered by FRWA including information essential to the water and wastewater industry. Please keep it handy as a quick reference to services and products that you need.
For a sneak peek, click on the logo below.
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40th FRWA Annual Conference
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40th FRWA Annual Conference
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August 5, 6, and 7, 2019
Hilton Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach FL 32118
Reservations: 386.254.8200 or
Back by popular demand, the 2019 Fortieth Florida Rural Water Association's Annual Technical and Training Conference will be held at the beautiful Hilton Daytona Beach/Ocean Walk Village in exciting Daytona Beach, Florida with the room rates starting at $112.00 (this rate does not include an additional $8.00 per day for self parking) plus tax. You will want to bring the entire family to take advantage of all the amenities that Daytona Beach has to offer. Hurry and make your reservation early by calling 386.254.8200 (M-F/9-5) or go online at
https://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/D/DABDHHF-FRWA19-20190804/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG and mention Florida Rural Water to take advantage of the great room rate!
We will kick things off with the Twenty-Forth Annual Carl Hongell Memorial Golf Tournament. It will be even more exciting since it will be played at the LPGA Golf Course!
Click here for more information.
Don't forget to bring your water sample to the Registration booth before 2:00 on Tuesday to participate in this year's Best Tasting Water Contest. The winner will be announced at the Exhibitor Social in the Exhibit Hall on Tuesday evening and will have the opportunity of representing Florida in the Great American Taste Test in Washington DC in February.
As always there will be plenty of door prizes to given away and a lot of good food! These and other activities will keep you informed, inspired, and motivated so that we can help you to make sure the future of the water and wastewater industry in Florida is bright.
See you in Daytona!
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NRWA Continues Training Water and Wastewater Professionals NRWA Continues Training Water and Wastewater Professionals more
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This Week in Water History
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| Junction Chamber Louisville's New Sewer System |
June 23, 1909: Municipal Journal and Engineerarticle. Sewer Work in Louisville. "The city of Louisville, Ky., is now doing a large amount of sewer main construction. For nearly eighteen years prior to the beginning of the present work practically nothing had been done in sewer work and Louisville, which is a large and growing city, was lamentably weak in sanitation. After considerable agitation the city, in 1906, was authorized to issue $4,000,000 worth of bonds for constructing additions to the existing systems and building new ones.
A sewer commission was appointed by the Mayor, consisting of P. L . Atherton, chairman ; Oscar Finley, W. C. Nones and Alfred Seligman. This commission employed Mr. Harrison P. Eddy, of Boston, as consulting engineer, and Mr. J. B. F. Breed, former city engineer, became chief engineer of the Sewer Commission. Mr. J. H. Kimball, formerly assistant city engineer, of Newton, Mass., was secured as designing engineer, and Messrs. F. C. Williams, H. S. Morse and H. P. Wires as resident engineers in charge of construction work.
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