Public Awareness Toolbox: A Simple Guide to Educating Private Well Owners
Public Awareness Toolbox: A Simple Guide to Educating Private Well Owners
Presented on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Water well system contractors are ideally suited to educate private well owners about how to reduce risks to their water supplies. The contractor possesses knowledge about groundwater protection, proper well construction, regular well maintenance, and regular water testing. This workshop will provide tools for the contractor to use that knowledge for public education and awareness. NGWA Public Awareness Director Cliff Treyens will show participants how to put together a simple plan to teach private well owners what they need to know to be good stewards of their groundwater and well systems.
Presenters:
Cliff Treyens
National Ground Water Association, Westerville, OH
National Ground Water Association, Westerville, OH
Cliff Treyens has been director of public awareness for NGWA since September 2003. A professional communicator for more than 30 years, Treyens has been a newspaper reporter, a political communications director, and a private-sector marketing/public relations practitioner. Distinctions include the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Public Service as part of a reporting team for the (Jackson, Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger, and serving as communications director for former Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus and former Ohio House Speaker Vernal G. Riffe Jr.
Gary L. Hix, CWD/PI, RG, CPG
In2Wells, LLC, Tucson, AZ
In2Wells, LLC, Tucson, AZ
Gary Hix is a water well consultant and owner of In2Wells LLC. He worked mostly as an Arizona water well drilling and pump contractor from 1986 to 2007. He authored more than 50 articles on subjects related to well drilling and pump installations. Hix is an instructor on topics related to water wells and well drilling methods on the staff for Hogan School of Real Estate and the Bureau of Land Management. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Arts in Business Management from the University of Phoenix.
