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Sub–Section Title 2015 Annual Report

Secretary Robert DiFilippo, PG Aquaterra Technologies Inc. West Chester, Pennsylvania

Treasurer Beverly Herzog Champaign, Illinois

President W. Richard Laton, Ph.D., PG, CHG, CPG California State University, Fullerton Santa Ana, California

Vice President Michael E. Campana, Ph.D. Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon

2015 NGWREF Board of DirectorsDirectorsArt Becker, MGWC, CPG Drilling and Safety Consultants LLC Manahawkin, New Jersey

Lori Huntoon, PG Huntoon Environmental Consulting Inc. Monroe, Wisconsin

Daniel T. Meyer, MGWC, CVCLD, CPA Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc. Signal Hill, California

Ben Primost, CWD/PI Pickwick Well Drilling Farmingdale, New Jersey

Steve Schneider, MGWC Schneider Equipment Inc. St. Paul, Oregon

The NGWREF mission is to conduct education, research, and other charitable activities that foster advancements in science and technology applied by the groundwater community; stimulate new knowledge, information, programs, and products; and contribute to groundwater sustainability for long-term public and environmental benefit.

Good Neighbor Network

Good Neighbor Network, in partnership with Good Samaritan Malawi, has received a $4,300 grant for a groundwater supply project to drill a well in Thule Village, in the Rumphi District of Malawi, where the nearest well is 3.7 miles away. The 3,200 residents of the village will reap the benefits of a potable water source in the community, particularly the women and girls.

Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation

Since receiving their first grant from NGWREF in 2013, the Rosshirt Water for Africa Foundation (RWFA) contin-ues to ensure an adequate and safe water supply in Zimbabwe. With a grant of $8,000, RWFA will perform routine maintenance and necessary repairs to 10 previously

constructed wells on which 25,000 individuals rely.

Water for Life InternationalAwarded $7,700, Water for Life International will be providing a potable water well to villages in the San Luis District of Guatemala. Installing a well with high standards for construction, Water for Life will be reducing waterborne disease and child death rates among the 400 villagers who will be served.

Developing Nations Education and Training GrantsNorthern Illinois Research Foundation

To conduct a two-week educational and hands-on train-ing short course, the Foundation is providing a $5,000 grant to the Northern Illinois Research Founda-tion. The course will take place in the

summer of 2016 at Yadanabon University in central Myanmar and focus on the principles of groundwater development, well construc-tion, wellhead protection, and groundwater quality/sampling. Because Myanmar lacks basic and current information on hydrogeology, this short course will impact a whole generation of groundwater professionals.

Skat FoundationIn order to raise understanding of key issues related to water well design and construction quality, the Skat Foundation will produce a short animated video, in both English and French, with a $10,000 grant from NGWREF. The video will be used internally by WaterAid and UNICEF as well as promoted externally by the Rural Water Supply Network and partners online, at conferences and training events.

Groundwater Supply Grants

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EducationLen Assante Scholarship

NGWREF awarded $25,000 from its Len Assante Scholar- ship Fund to 15 students. Each of the scholarship recipients are entering a field of study that serves, supports, or promotes the groundwater professions.

In talking with college soph-omore Tyler Rush, you get the impression whatever he does—he gets the job

done. That is good news for Rush Well Drilling in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, because Rush has committed to someday taking over the family well construction business.

“I think of myself as a hard worker. I always like doing things right the first time. That’s the way I was raised: Do it right the first time or don’t do it at all,” he says. In the family’s well business, “we’re on time constraints, so we have to do everything in a certain amount of time but it has to be done right.”

Rush is majoring in water resources with a minor in business at the University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point. He will be the fifth generation to run the family business, but the first with a college education to do so.

Rush says, “When I mentioned to my dad wanting to go to college, he said that was the only way I was going to be able to take it over—to get a degree. Getting a degree in something related to well con-struction is going to help me be more successful.”

Not that Rush doesn’t value learning at the hands of the masters—his father, Jon, and grandfather, Robert, who passed the reins of the business to Jon.

“I’m obviously nervous about it, getting started and everything, but I know they’ll both help me out until I get my feet underneath me and figure things out,” he adds. “Even to this day, my grandpa helps my dad out, and my dad has been running the well drilling business for close to 30 years.”

Rush represents a new generation of water well

Tyler Rush University of Wisconsin– Stevens Point Black River Falls, Wisconsin

Farvolden Award winners

Farhad Jazaei Auburn University Auburn, Alabama

Charlene N. King Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado

Stephanie S. Wong Baylor University Waco, Texas

Omkar Aphale Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York

Additional Assante Scholarship winners

Hannah Gibbs Centre College London, Kentucky

Annette Hein Ora Lyons Award University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming

Alexandra Polasko Past President Award University of California-Berkeley Scottsdale, Arizona

Kaitlyn Aldrich Iowa State University Urbandale, Iowa

Maribeth Ault Juniata College Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania

Kiloaulani Ka’awa-Gonzales Colorado State University Kaunakakai, Hawaii

Dylan Landon California Polytechnic State University Waterville, Washington

Brenden Green Humboldt State University Antelope, California

Erin Gray University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

Katherine Landoni Oregon State University Sequim, Washington

Amy Plechacek Virginia Tech University Blacksburg, Virginia

Ythalya Ortuno Texas A&M University Houston, Texas

Ryan Ronzoni Cornell University Goshen, New York

Sarah Welsh Harvard University Bellingham, Washington

Farvolden AwardThe Farvolden Award competition was held at the 2015 Groundwater Summit in San Antonio, Texas. Because of the generous underwriting from S.S. Papadopulos & Associates Inc., we were able to distribute $4,000 to four graduate students in the field of groundwater:

system professionals who see the value of a college education in what can be a tough business environment. He said the transition from high school to college has been a real challenge.

“It’s the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. College is way more challenging,” Rush says. While students can sometimes skate through high school, “if you don’t do the work in college, you won’t know what to do.”

He added the most rewarding thing he’s done to date is “making the decision to go to college and know I’m making the right choice.”

Although Rush represents the new generation of future water well system professionals, he relishes some of the age-old satisfaction that comes from being in this business.

“I like there’s never really a day that’s the same,” he says. “You’re always getting into something new. When drilling wells, they’re never going to be the same depth or take the same amount of time or drill as easy. I like the idea of doing different things every day.”

2016 McEllhiney LecturePeter S. Cartwright, PE, will present

“Groundwater Contaminants and Treatment Options” as the 2016 McEllhiney Distinguished Lecturer. Cartwright, who owns and operates Cartwright Consult-ing Co. with offices in Minneapolis and

the Netherlands, has been in the treatment side of the water industry since 1974.

The context for Cartwright’s lecture is that no two water supplies are identical, so ensuring a potable water supply that is safe, good tasting,

and acceptable for washing, bathing, or showering requires a treatment approach that takes into account the unique variables that affect water quality.

Health-related contaminants such as nitrite/nitrate, arsenic, and pathogenic microorgan-isms may be naturally occurring or the result of human activity, or both. Also, the water pH, total dissolved solids, iron, hardness, and other constituents may affect taste or its other properties. The challenge to the groundwater professional is how to reduce such constituents to an acceptable level.

The lecture will be tailored to the contami-nants that a given audience encounters most frequently or the treatment technologies in which the audience is most interested.

2016 Darcy LectureTy Ferré, Ph.D., professor in the Uni-versity of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, has been selected as the 2016 Henry Darcy Distin-guished Lecturer.

Ferré’s lecture, “Seeing Things Differently: Rethinking the Relationship Between Data and Models,” explores how the practice of hydrology depends on computer models while at the same time new methods have been adapted or developed for characterizing and monitoring the subsurface.

He notes these two areas have evolved almost completely independently of one another, but posits a unified approach is needed—designing measurement methods in the context of numerical analyses that address specific scientific and

management questions. Accordingly, Ferré will present an integrated overview of the relationships among models, measurements, and decisions, including:

• Discussing what is actually being measured when measurements are made, with a focus on the large scale from pumping tests to geophysics

• Describing how these measurements currently are being merged with models and how this process could be improved

• Covering how hydrogeologists can turn the standard approach to combining measure-ments and models around by using models to help identify more informative measurements

• Exploring how the optimal design of a measurement and modeling campaign can, and should, be driven by the specific practical or scientific questions being asked.

Emerging Leaders Alliance NGWREF sent eight individuals to the Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference that took place November 8-11, 2015 in Reston, Virginia.

Sponsoring groundwater industry emerging leaders is consistent with NGWREF’s commitment to continuing education in leadership skills that will enhance the future effectiveness of the groundwater professions, and maximize the impact of groundwater for society.

Robert Curley Layne Christensen, Middletown, Ohio

William Fernandez CDM Smith, Waimanalo, Hawaii

David Henrich, CWD/PI, CVCLD Thermal Dynamics, Maple Plain, Minnesota

Jennifer Karen Summit Drilling, Bridgewater, New Jersey

Gretchen Miller, Ph.D. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Lauren Schapker National Ground Water Association, Alexandria, Virginia

Nathan Smith CDM Smith, Denver, Colorado

Becky Wiedorn Ground Water Pump Systems, Boulder, Colorado

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Leader($50,000 and above)Franklin Electric

Partner($10,000 to $24,999)Laibe Corp./Versa-DrillNational Ground Water AssociationSteve Schneider, MGWC, and Miriam SchneiderSummit Drilling Co. Inc.

Patron($5,000 to $9,999)Art Becker, MGWC, CPG, and Joann BeckerDaniel T. Meyer, MGWC, CVCLD, and Jeannie MeyerJohn MillerJohn W. Henrich, MGWC, CVCLD, and Bobbi HenrichMichael E. Campana, Ph.D.Moretrench American Corp.

Associate($2,500 to $4,999)Downey Drilling Inc.S.S. Papadopulos & Associates Inc.Scott King, PG

Friend($500 to $2,499)Beverly L. Herzog

Daniel B. Stephens, Ph.D.Daniel B. Stephens & Associates Inc.Earth Forensics Inc.Frank C. Gabriel James Butler, Ph.D.Jeffrey W. Williams, MGWC, CVCLDKevin B. McCray, CAELen FordPickwick Well DrillingPumps of Houston Inc.Robert M. DiFilippo, PGRobert P. Schreiber, PERonnie HensleyScott J. Fowler, CWD/PIService Wire Co.Stephen E. Silliman, Ph.D.Timothy K. Parker, PGTodd E. Hunter, CWD/PIW. Richard Laton, Ph.D., PG, CHG, CPG

Donor($1 to $499)AAA Well DrillingAllan D. RandallAmazon SmileAndres Cano, PGAndrew T. BenoitAnthony NatividadAquaterra Technologies Inc.Barbara H. Wilson

Barry R. LevineBobby L. Gaddis, PE, PGBrian Lane, CPIBurkhard BohmCameron TanaCarol GraffCharles Daniel IIICharles J. TaylorCharles Thomas, PGChristopher M. KravitsChristopher P. Carlson, Ph.D.Claude Mays IIIClearwater Drilling Co.Crosby Well Drilling Inc.David A. Stonestrom, Ph.D.David H. WozabDavid R. LarsonDMW Well & Pump ServiceDon Stodola Well Drilling Co. Inc.Dorothy S. MalaierDuane CrawfordE. Calvin Alexander Jr., Ph.D.Edward MehnertEdward Powell Pump & WellEichelbergers Inc.Erin RodgersESP Enviro Service Products Inc.Fernando GomezFred E. BaechlerGary A. Colgan, CGWPGregor Well Drilling

Gregory Drilling Inc.Gretchen Miller, Ph.D.Harmony WarrenHeather J. CrossHerbert A. Wilson Jr., Retired MGWC, PE Huckfeldt Well Drilling Inc.James KippJean Bahr, Ph.D.Jefferson P. HofferJoe C. Yelderman Jr., Ph.D.John Jansen, Ph.D., PG, RGpJohn Massey NortonJones Well DrillingJordan F. Clark, Ph.D.Joseph Amaya, Ph.D.Joseph Caggiano, Ph.D.Joseph GuardinoJudith SchenkKatherine J. Beinkafner, Ph.D.Kyrian OjibeLarry E. RobertsMario R. LluriaMark KibbleMary C. Hill, Ph.D.Melissa Lenczewski, Ph.D.Michael M. ShawMid-America Pump & SupplyMohammad H. MakkawiMohsen MehranMorton PriceNancy R. Zolidis

Otto Strack, Ph.D.Paul GruberPaula L. MacRaeProActive Environmental ProductsRalph K. Davis, Ph.D.Reiner G. HauboldRichard Thron, MGWCRobert L. BluntzerRobert L. MelvinRobert W. Cleary, Ph.D.Ron SwansonRoot ContractingStuart A. Smith, CGWPSumoto S.r.l.Terry FaragoTerry Griffin, CGWPTerry SmithThomas J. TimmermansTimothy J. DurbinTissa H. IllangasekareVirdell Drilling Inc.Western Rubber & Mfg.William S. DeyWindmill 702 LLCZelony Well Drilling Inc.

This list represents all donations made between November 1, 2014 and October 31, 2015.

Each of these generous contributions help to enable the Foundation, a part of the National Ground Water Association, to conduct education, research, and other charitable activities to enhance the future effectiveness of the groundwater professions and to maximize the impact of groundwater for our society.

Thank you to the individuals and companies that have supported the Foundation in the past year.