Past Events
DGSD Open House 2025
FREE EVENT!
Saturday, October 4th, 2025, 9am - 12pm
Wastewater Treatment Center, 5003 Walnut Ave., Downers Grove (3 blocks north of Maple Ave.)
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how your local wastewater treatment plant works from start to finish!
Homeowners, students, scout groups, and community members of all ages are welcome.
ADMISSION IS FREE!
For more information, call 630-969-0664, or visit https://www.dgsd.org/educational-opportunities/annual-open-house/
2025 CSWEA/IWEA WEFTEC Reception
September 28th, 2025 | 5:00 - 8:00PM
Spin
344 N. State St.
Chicago, IL 60654
https://wearespin.com/location/chicago/
Attendee Registration | Sponsor Registration
All members and sponsors of CSWEA and IWEA are invited to attend!
CSWEA MN Section Pretreatment Seminar 2025
Thursday, September 25th, 2025, 1pm - 3pm
Pilgrim's Pride
Sauk River Road
Cold Spring, MN 56320
$15 MEMBERS
$20 NON-MEMBERS
The Minnesota Section of the Central States Water Environment Association (CSWEA) Industrial Wastes Committee is excited to invite municipal and industrial water professionals to Cold Spring, Minnesota for a small group facility tour and first hand conversation with industry, municipal, and engineering representatives. We will discuss roles, responsibilities, challenges and examples of a successful pretreatment program.
Presentations and discussions on nutrient reduction programs and strategies, looking particularly at nitrogen. Permittee and State Regulator perspectives will be shared.
CSWEA leaders and representatives will also be present and will provide an overview of the Industrial Waste Committee, CSWEA resources and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Industrial Water Quality Achievement Award opportunities.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be provided.
Stormwater Committee Bike Tour
FREE EVENT!
Wednesday, September 24, 3-5pm
Meet at Como Lakeside Pavilion, 1360 Lexington Parkway North, Saint Paul
Join the Minnesota Stormwater Committee as we take a tour around the Como Lake watershed and learn about Capital Region Watershed District’s nearly three decades of work to improve stormwater management, work with the community, and perform in-lake treatments to achieve a healthier Como Lake. You will participate in a guided 6-mile bike tour on the streets and bike trails of Saint Paul, around the lake, through the adjacent regional park, and up into the watershed, While learning about various related topics.
Please bring your own bike and helmet. Following the tour, at 5:00 p.m., we will enjoy a happy hour at the Como Lakeside Pavilion (outdoors). This event and tour will happen rain or shine, so please dress for the weather.
For questions and registration, please contact Stephanie Johnson at stephanie.johnson@barr.com.
CSWEA Operator Training Webinar - Activated Sludge I
COST:
$35 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$40 – Non-Members
$10 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$10 – International (Discount Code: International)
1.5 CEU's for IL, WI & MN Operators / 1.8 PDH's for all Professional Engineers
2025 IL Operations Seminar
SAVE THE DATE - Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Fox Metro WRD
682 State Route 31
Oswego, IL. 60543
Agenda
8:00AM–8:30AM Registration (coffee & doughnuts)
8:30AM–11:30AM Equipment Demos & Presentations
11:15AM–12:00PM Lunch
12:00PM–1:30PM Equipment Demos & Presentations
1:30PM– END Plant Tour
Demo Day hands on equipment demos and presentations.
LAI & Associates, Borger Pump, Centrisys, and Grundfos
Welcome coffee, juice, & doughnuts
Lunch Included
Young Professionals Baseball Night
Wednesday, August 27th. 5pm Tailgate, 6:40pm Game
Tickets - Includes dinner, drinks and ticket
Seasoned Professional: $35
Young Professional: $25
Please make checks payable to:
MSW-Tom Mulcahy
N57 W6316 Center Street Cedarburg, WI 53012
Pay via credit card (3% fee) - Email info@mulcahyshaw.com
Venmo - @jmulcahy6 - please send an email with your venmo username and who you’ve paid for
RSVP by August 22nd
Email info@mulcahyshaw.com for more info, or call 414-531-0308
WI Section Meeting
Wed Aug 27, 2025 - 2:30pm – 3:30pm
Marquette Engineering Hall- Room TBD
A virtual option is available via the link below. Hope to see you there!
Meeting ID: 247 788 253 016 7
Passcode: xX9KT33M
WI Section 2025 Industrial Pretreatment Seminar
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 7:30am - 3:30pm
Dale's Weston Lanes & The Mountain Bay Banquet & Conference Center
5902 Schofield Ave.
Weston, WI 54476
Info & Agenda | Register
2025 WI Management Seminar
The Bend Theatre (125 N Main St., West Bend, WI)
Prairie Center (1900 South 18th Ave., West Bend, WI)
Sewage Sludge Incineration Conference (SSICON)
July 29-30, 2025
214 4th St E
St. Paul MN 55101
The sewage sludge incineration (SSI) industry continues to offer a reliable process for wastewater solids treatment. The industry has proved up to the challenges of recent regulatory changes while offering a potential solution for the current wastewater challenge, PFAS. To ensure reliable operation for the future it's important for professionals operating, maintaining, designing, and optimizing these facilities to collaborate and establish lines of knowledge transfer. This conference is focused to benefit the utilities who own and operate SSIs and will cover advanced topics on these facilities. The “classroom” portion of the conference agenda (Tuesday, July 29) has been tailored to address common questions raised by both fluid bed and multiple hearth-based SSI utilities on what it takes to keep facilities operating or transition to a new incineration technology. The “tour” day (Wednesday, July 30) offers attendees the opportunity to visit two different facilities that represent both the fluid bed and multiple hearth technologies primarily used in Canada and the US. Attend the conference to learn more about SSIs and perhaps more importantly make connections with utilities and other professionals serving these facilities!
Hyatt Place St. Paul (180 Kellogg Boulevard East) is offering a group rate for attendees of the conference if they book before June 30. Book a room by clicking below or call 1-888-492-8847, press 1 for New Reservation, and mention the group rate code: G-CSRB.
Info | Register | Hotel Bookings
CSWEA CSX 2025
Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, WI
Hotel Bookings
$169 - $269 a night (w/ 4 waterpark passes)
Block Name: Central States
Call 877-253-5466
or book online: https://book.passkey.com/e/50985432
CSWEA YP and Student Summer Social
Thursday July 17th | 5pm - 8pm
Boone & Crockett
818 S Water St, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Enjoy an evening on the patio with CSWEA YPs (first round of drinks are on us!). N/A drinks also available. All are welcome!
Please RSVP by 7/11/25
Info | RSVP
CSWEA/APWA YP Happy Hour
Monday July 14th | 3:30pm
Old Town Pour House
1703 Freedom Dr, Naperville, IL 60563
Hosted by the YP Committees of APWA Chicago Metro and CSWEA Illinois Section.
Join us for networking after the Collection Systems Conference. Attendance at the conference is not required.
First round is on us!
Info | Register
2025 ILLINOIS STORMWATER/COLLECTION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
REGISTER TODAY!
Monday, July 14, 2025
8:00 AM – 3:30 PM
NIU Naperville Campus,
1120 E Diehl Rd, Naperville, IL 60563
Attendees: Info & Agenda | Register
Exhibitors: Info | Register
CSWEA Operator Training Webinar - Fundamentals of Preliminary and Primary Treatment
COST:
$40 – Non-Members
$35 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$10 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$10 – International (Discount Code: International)
Info | Register
CSWEA Webinar: Using WIFIA Financing to Accelerate Water Infrastructure Projects
Presented by: Dallas Shattuck - Senior Program Manager, WIFIA Program - USEPA
COST
$35 - Non-Members
$25 - Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$10 - Student (Discount Code: Student)
$10 - International (Discount Code: International)
Info | Register
CSWEA 2025 MNX
11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CDT
City of St. Cloud Wastewater Treatment Facility
525 60th Street South
St. Cloud, MN 56301
Lunch will be provided. Everyone is encouraged to participate in person. A MS Teams call-in will be provided for those that can’t be there in person.
WI Section 2025 Classic Collection System Seminar
CSWEA 98th Annual Meeting
The Local Arrangements Committee (LAC) is pleased to welcome you to the CSWEA’s 98th Annual meeting at the Monona Terrace in Madison, WI. Our theme is One Water for All. We applaud those in our industry that are preserving our water resources for all who need it and are welcoming anyone with interest into our water workforce!
This is the last stop in Madison before the 100th Annual Conference that will be held in Illinois in 2027, and we are going to raise the bar to start the countdown towards that centennial event. This event is ambitious, as we want to have a memorable and valuable experience for all the members of CSWEA who join us. The Young Professionals (YPs) will be front and center in this conference, as they have been for years. This year, the YPs are planning many things, including a service project at the Henry Villas Zoo!
This year’s local tours are going to be memorable as well. We will tour the Sun Prairie Water Pollution Control Facility and the stormwater tour will be on the grounds of Epic in Verona, an extraordinary campus that will serve as a backdrop to conversations on stormwater management.
Other events we are hosting include a golf outing at the scenic Pleasant Prairie Golf Club and a 5K run for those looking for some activity. Rick Wilcox, who is nationally renowned at his craft, will entertain our crowd at the Meet and Greet Social Hour. The social hour will be held in an extraordinary space within the Madison Public Library with views of the Wisconsin Capital.
Presentations will kick off with a keynote from Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells from the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, who will provide their perspective on One Water For All. As always, the technical committee has put together an exceptional show, where technical experts from the Central States area and beyond will share their thoughts on many different topics central to our water workforce. We will have an operations track for the people who are interested in practical applications, as well as an ethics track for those in need of refresher credits.
Our exhibitors will be available for two days in the exhibit hall, where they will be happy to talk about the latest and greatest as well as the tried and true of their offerings. Please support them, as they are instrumental to the success of the organization!
There will be a silent auction, where we will raise money and awareness for the Global Water Stewardship (GWS). We will also celebrate the success of our Operations Competition Teams and will offer opportunities for people to try some of the competitions that they are working to master while making the membership proud. Finally, the Banquet Dinner is a great opportunity to network and share gratitude for those that are doing so much to improve our industry.
Many thanks to the LAC under the leadership of Cathy Wunderlich and the technical committee led by Steven Graziano. Thanks also to the Executive Committee, Haque Associates, and the Association and State Section Committees that do so much for the organization and work so hard to put together an extraordinary annual conference. I hope you enjoy your time with us in Madison!
CSWEA Webinar: Instrumentation & Controls for Process Engineers & Operators
3.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 3.6 PDHs for all PEs
2 PART WEBINAR!
Wednesday January 22nd & 29th
COST:
$70 – Non-Members
$50 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$15 – International (Discount Code: International)
CSWEA Webinar: Implementation of Primary Sludge and Biomass Fermentation
1.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 1.2 PDHs for all PEs
Event Details:
2 PART WEBINAR!
Wednesday January 22nd & 29th
COST:
- $70 – Non-Members
- $50 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
- $15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
- $15 – International (Discount Code: International)
Info
PRESENTED BY: STEVEN REUSSER
CSWEA Webinar: Implementation of Primary Sludge and Biomass Fermentation
1.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 1.2 PDHs for all PEs
REGISTER TODAY!
Wednesday January 15th – 11:00 AM
COST:
$35 – Non-Members
$25 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$15 – International (Discount Code: International)
CSWEA Webinar: Commissioning of Biological Phosphorus Facilities
1.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 1.2 PDHs for all PEs
REGISTER TODAY!
Wednesday January 8th – 11:00 AM
COST:
$35 – Non-Members
$25 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$15 – International (Discount Code: International)
CSWEA Webinar: Optimizing of Biological Phosphorus Facilities
1.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 1.2 PDHs for all PEs
REGISTER TODAY!
Wednesday January 8th – 11:00 AM
COST:
$35 – Non-Members
$25 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$15 – International (Discount Code: International)
Info
PRESENTED BY: TROY LARSON
CSWEA Webinar: Why Are My PAOs Misbehaving?
1.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 1.2 PDHs for all PEs
Event Details:
REGISTER TODAY!
COST:
- $35 – Non-Members
- $25 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
- $10 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
- $10 – International (Discount Code: International)
Info
PRESENTER: LEON DOWNING
CSWEA Webinar: Instrumentation & Controls for Process Engineers & Operators
3.0 CEUs for IL, MN, WI Operators | 3.6 PDHs for all PEs
2 PART WEBINAR!
Wednesday January 22nd & 29th
COST:
$70 – Non-Members
$50 – Members (Discount Code: CSWEA)
$15 – Student (Discount Code: Student)
$15 – International (Discount Code: International)