Register Now for the 2022 Florida Water Resources Conference Contests

Participants are encouraged to sign up for the Operations Challenge and Top Ops Competition, which will be held at the Florida Water Resources Conference in Daytona Beach on April 24-27, 2022, at the Volusia County Ocean Center.

Treatment plant operators from across Florida will compete in the annual Operations Challenge. Participants will be timed in five separate operational competitions to determine the state’s representative for the national Operations Challenge at WEFTEC 2022 in New Orleans.

The contest promotes team building, leadership, education, and pride within a utility. Any utility that didn’t have a team in the 2019 contest is especially encouraged to participate in next year’s event.

For information and entry forms, contact Chris Fasnacht, Operations Challenge chair, at 407-254-7224.

The annual statewide Top Ops contest will also be held at the 2022 conference. Top Ops is the “College Bowl” of the water industry. Teams of one, two, or three water operators or laboratory personnel from the FSAWWA regions compete against each other in a fastpaced question-and-answer tournament at the conference.

A moderator poses a wide range of technical questions and math problems, and the team scoring the most points in the final round is awarded the Florida Section AWWA Top Ops championship. The winning team will earn a trip to ACE22 in San Antonio, where it will compete with teams from other American Water Works Association sections in the national Top Ops contest. Utilities throughout the state are encouraged to enter. Teams do not have to consist of employees of the same utility, and multiple utilities can sponsor a team. No video, audio, or digital recordings will be allowed during the competition. For registration forms, more details, and to receive the competition rules, contact the Top Ops Committee chair, Andrew Greenbaum, at 352-667-4138 or at agreenbaum@regionalwater.org, or visit www.fsawwa.org/topops. S