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ALASKA WATER WELL ASSOCIATION
JANUARY 2008
VOLUME
18, NO.1
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a great holiday season and ended the year positively and with not too bad of a headache. 2007 was a productive year in our industry and in our State. Work in a variety of sectors in our economy was busy and it appears will stay busy through 2008. A concern on the immediate horizon is the slow down in new home construction and sales of homes. This has a direct impact on our industry and we all need to be promoting continued controlled growth throughout our State. With continued growth, our economy will remain stable. Without it, the phones won’t be ringing from people needing new wells.
We are currently preparing for this year’s annual conference. This year’s conference is the 21st & 22nd of February and our Executive Secretary, Karen Henderson, has solicited some very good speakers giving talks on topics relevant to our industry. There will also be some new and some familiar people attending the trade booths in the halls. It should be a very informative conference.
During the conference, our Board of Directors will be recruiting for new members to fill positions for this year’s board and committee chairmanships. Anyone interested, please contact a board or committee member so the nomination can be included in this year’s annual board meeting. Remember, it is a good thing to volunteer.
Your attendance helps make these conferences a success. I look forward to seeing all of you at this year’s conference. 2008 will be great.
The 2008 Pacific Northwest Ground Water Exposition is February 1st and 2nd in Portland, Oregon. If you haven’t already registered now is a good time to do so, although you won’t get the early registration discount after January 1st. This is the one convention where we benefit from the number of people that attend. So, the more the merrier and it helps the association.
Ron L. Pichler, President
CONEXPO
Those who don’t want to wait until December 2008 to make a trip to Las Vegas, get ready for the Conexpo-Con/AGG at the Las Vegas Convention Center March 11-15, 2008.
SIGN UP NOW
Enclosed with this newsletter is the pre-registration form for the Alaska Water Well convention. As in the past, please complete this and fax it back to me (fax 562-5971) so we can get prepared for the number attending. You don’t have to send a check in advance, you can pay at the conference. But if you prefer, you can mail in your check and registration. Either way works for me. I like to make it easy for you.
This is the time of the year we collect for dues also. It is easy to include it in with the registration check so you only have one check to write the association.
The conference is at the Alaska Millennium Hotel again. As mentioned in past newsletters we contemplated moving it to another facility but for this year, the board and conference committee decided this was the best place to have it. We can still pursue other venues for next year if the association wishes.
There will be further information sent out as time gets closer to the convention date. We don’t want to reveal too many surprises yet.
NEED AQUIFER SAMPLES
In our last newsletter, we mentioned Tom Hanna with Johnson Screen has promised a trip to Alaska for the 2008 convention. He will be doing a lecture and hands-on class. I hope you all read the newsletter and have been saving samples for the class. We need at least a 2 quart baggie, marked with location and date. Whenever you are by my office you can drop them off or we will start rounding them up in February.
Alaska Water Well Association Board Members
Name, Position Company
Ron Pichler, President Denali Drilling, Inc.
Kris Westberg, Vice President M-W Drilling Inc
Rob Schachle, Secretary Penn Jersey Drilling
Don Blackwell, Treasurer Blackwell Pump
Jeff Allshouse, Contractor Director A-l Pump Service
Steve Clark, Manufacturer Director Alaska Pump & Supply
Jim Munter, Technical Director J. A. Munter Consulting, Inc.
Brian Wille, Past President Aarow Pump & Well Service
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Alaska Water Well Association Objectives
The objectives of this association shall be to assist, promote, encourage, and support the interests and welfare of the groundwater industry in all of its phases generally and in particular within Alaska, to foster, aid, and promote scientific education, standards, research, and techniques in order to improve methods of well construction and development, and to advance the science of groundwater hydrology; to promote harmony and cooperation between well contractors and governmental and scientific agencies relative to the proper development and protection of underground water supplies; to encourage cooperation of all interested groups relative to the improvement of drilling and pumping equipment; to encourage, serve, assist, and promote close cooperation with the National Ground Water Association, Inc.; to collect, analyze and disseminate information to the economy of Alaska and of the nation; and to advance generally the mutual interests of all those engaged in the groundwater industry in their own and the public interest.
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