Looking for ways to reach your municipal utility customers? The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU) has a few marketing opportunities that we want to let you know about.

• Our Buyer’s Guide is a bi-annual electronic booklet that allows you to highlight your company and its products and services. You have an entire page to do with what you wish -- photos, contact information, sales copy, whatever you can dream up (within reason).

• Our 70th Anniversary Commemorative Magazine advertising allows you to have extended ad exposure compared to typical magazine advertising. Readers are much more likely to keep this special publication than a reoccurring magazine. This is a limited first-come, first-served opportunity.

• Our Golfin’ Fore Safety event is your chance to make our safety fundraiser even more fun for participants by sponsoring various aspects of the day. Bonus: You can come golf, too, as part of most sponsorship levels.

• Our Equipment Demo & Exhibit Day is a great way to show potential customers what you can provide by demo-ing or exhibiting your products or services in a real-life setting. You’ll also be able to invite your other clients (beyond the IAMU members whom we will invite) to come out and check out what you do. This is a free event to participate, but we need you to sign up. We’re also looking for event sponsors.

If you have any questions about these opportunities, please feel free to contact Jen Cronin at 515-289-1999 or jcronin@iamu.org.

The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities’ Safety Services will be holding a Drug & Alcohol Employee/Supervisor Training webinar. This webinar will address the following:

• The effects of drugs and alcohol on the body
•  How to know if someone is on drugs
•  Suggestions for what an individual can do about it

60 minutes will be spent on symptoms of alcohol abuse;
60 minutes will be spent on symptoms of drug/controlled substance abuse

*Certificate of Completion will be emailed to registrants after the event*
 
Who Should Attend?
Employees and supervisors involved with CDLs and gas operations
 
Presenter:
Paul Kittelson, IAMU Safety Services
 
Webinar Time and Length:
Thursday, May 25, 2017 - 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
 
Cost:
$40 per IAMU Member participant; $65 per Non-IAMU Member participant
 
Webinar instructions and information will be sent to the registrant’s email.
 
For online registration and additional information, please click here.

Help support future water and wastewater professionals by planning to sponsor and/or attend the Shrimp & Bingo Fundraiser. This year, the event will be held on Aug. 26, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the FFA Enrichment Center on the Des Moines Area Community College’s Ankeny Campus. The evening will feature great food, prizes, and live music.

Sponsorship opportunities and tickets are available. For more information, contact Dennis Hayworth at 515-256-4925 or by email at dahayworth@dmacc.edu.

To learn more about the Water Environmental Technology Program, visit: http://www.waterandwastewateroperatortraining.com

Provided by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Iowa DNR - Water Supply now has the responsibility for receiving the well records and pumping test records for all public water supply wells and all wells covered by a water use permit.  With this change, we hope to improve the number of new well records the state receives, save staff time and effort, and ensure full completion of these important records, including accurate well location, construction, lithology, and water levels. 

The change in where records are sent only affects wells drilled or modified within the DNR public water supply and water use programs, which are roughly 80-100 new wells per year.  There are no changes to private, geothermal, and monitoring well record submittals.  Additionally, all drill chips for the public water supply and water use program wells should still be sent to, or picked up by, the Iowa Geological Survey - IIHR.  This change in address is reflected in the updated well record forms available through both IGS and IDNR websites.

All well records received by IDNR will still be posted and available online via GeoSam.
Well logs and pump tests can be submitted to the state via the following methods:

• Private, geothermal, and monitoring well record forms can be submitted electronically through the Private Well Tracking System (PWTS) database, through a paper copy submitted to the respective county sanitarian, or to the Iowa Geological Survey at 100 Oakdale IGS, Iowa City, IA 52242.

• Public water supply and Water use well record forms and pump test information can be submitted through paper copy to: IDNR WS-Well Records, 502 E. 9th St., Des Moines, IA 50319; or emailed to: well.records@dnr.iowa.gov. 

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Chad Fields at chad.fields@dnr.iowa.gov.

IAMU is celebrating our 70th Anniversary this year. We want to put together a video and magazine on IAMU’s history and are looking for sources who would be willing to share what they know about IAMU’s history – whether from their own personal experiences or from what they’ve been told by former IAMU members who may no longer be with us. If your time with IAMU goes back 10, 20, 30 years or more, we’d loved to chat with you. If you know of someone who is retired who might be good for us to contact, let us know that, too.

Please contact Jen Cronin at jcronin@iamu.org or at 515-289-1999 if you would be willing to help us out by sharing what you know.

The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities in conjunction with Wichita State Environmental Finance Center (EFC), encourages representatives from your utility to attend an upcoming rate setting and financial planning workshop.

The session provides participants with an understanding on major considerations when setting rates, rate structure options and pricing objectives, financial planning considerations, and strategies for communicating rate information to your board and community. The training will provide classroom instruction as well as interactive participant exercises and discussion.

This training would be beneficial for Financial/Accounting Staff, Finance Directors, Utility Directors, City Managers, City Clerks, Board/City Council Members, Customer Service Managers, Operators, Engineering Staff and other utility employees/stakeholders.

*5 CEU hours available for Water Treatment, Distribution, or Wastewater.

For more information, and to register, click here.

The Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities in conjunction with Wichita State Environmental Finance Center (EFC), encourages representatives from your utility to attend an upcoming capital improvement planning workshop. The session provides participants with an understanding of what to include in a Capital Improvement Plan, who should be involved and why it’s important to implement a plan, strategies for replacing existing equipment, infrastructure, and planning to meet existing or new regulatory requirements.  The training will provide classroom instruction as well as interactive participant exercises and discussion.

This training would be beneficial for Financial/Accounting Staff, Finance Directors, Utility Directors, City Managers, City Clerks, Board/City Council Members, Customer Service Managers, Operators, Engineering Staff and other utility employees/stakeholders.

*5 CEU hours available for Water Treatment, Distribution, or Wastewater.

For more information, and to register, click here.

Mark your calendars for this year’s IAMU Overhead Electric Transmission and Distribution Workshop.  This year’s workshop will take place May 17 – 19, 2017 at the IAMU Training and Office Complex. 

This classroom topics and hands-on activities include:

• Connections
• AMPACT
• Rigging
• Hot Pole Transfer
• Storm Restoration
  
• Line Inspections
• Preformed Trailer
• Capacitor Banks and Regulators
• Near Misses
• And much more…

Pre-workshop activities including apprentice evaluations and beginning pole climbing will occur the day before the actual workshop on Tuesday, May 16.  Apprenticeship testing and skill evaluations will be available.  Please note that the number of apprentices is limited to the first 8 that sign up.  Pre-registration is required for apprenticeship testing and evaluations.  Testing and evaluations will be available May 16 and the morning of May 17 ONLY. (For questions about testing, please contact Dan Llewellyn – dllewellyn@iamu.org, or Meredith Hibbs – mhibbs@iamu.org.)

The registration deadline for this workshop is Friday, May 12.  You may mail, or fax the registration form in.  Registration is also available online.

For additional information regarding the workshop, including registration, agenda, and schedule, please refer to the brochure HERE.