Events

Whidbey Island Water Systems Association hosts quarterly Member Meetings which are open to the public. Typically the Member Meetings are held in March, June, September and December, with the December meeting designated as the Annual Meeting for budget approval, director elections and other formal business. Only WIWSA members are able to vote on motions at the quarterly and annual meetings.

Other upcoming events will be included here, both those sponsored by WIWSA or our partners, or other community events that might be of interest to WIWSA members.

Upcoming Events

2026 Annual Member Meeting; December 2026, date TBD; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm IN-PERSON and ZOOM

The next member meeting is planned for December 2026, date still to be determined at the Coupeville Library and on ZOOM. The agenda and meeting details will be emailed to the newsletter subscriber list around December 1st. You can subscribe to the email list here or contact us by email.

Evergreen Rural Water of Washington, 33rd Annual Conference And Tradeshow, February 9-11, 2027, IN-PERSON

ERWoW encourages Operators, Utility Board Members, Mayors, Council Members, Public Works Directors, and other community leaders to attend our conference! There are specific classes designed with utility officials in mind, focusing on the roles and responsibilities that come with overseeing your community’s water and wastewater systems. REGISTER HERE

Recent Events

Reports from meetings or events that have been held recently. For less recent events, look further down under Meeting & Event Archives.

RECAP: Q3 Member Meeting; September 16, 2026 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm IN-PERSON and ZOOM

Thanks to everyone who attended the September’s Member Meeting which was held in person on Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at the Coupeville Library and online over Zoom. There was a quorum present at the library with over 40 people attending with another 30+ people joining on Zoom.

President Randi Perry opened the meeting with introductions and approval of the agenda, minutes and treasurer reports. We had a quorum within the libary alone with many Group A and B members present along with representatives from the WA Department of Health, Island County and the SMA Water and Wastewater Services plus many others joining on Zoom. Thanks again to all who turned out!

We returned to the topic of Rate Structures with Randi opening the floor for questions and followup from the June meeting. A discussion followed which you can view in the recording below.

The main topic of the meeting followed with Jeff Tasoff (WIWSA board member) and Robert Bennion of Facet presenting on Asset Management; Creating and Maintaining a Water System Asset Inventory. They stressed the importance of establishing and maintaining an Asset Inventory to create a reasonable rate structure and to enabler any kind of reserve management. A healthy reserve reduces the financial stress for you and your consumers. You can view the presentation via this link and you will find many supporting documents in the links below this recap.

Our final topic was an update on water quality testing requirements and lab updates. Randi presented a lab update that had been prepared by Culley Lehman (WIWSA Board Member) on the various options to conduct water quality testing. Joyful Bell (Acute Water Quality Monitoring Program Manager, PHA3 from Office of Drinking Water) presented on Water Sampling Requriements providing an overview of the topic. Aneta Hupfauer (Island County) recapped the changes that Eurofins had made to their Chain of Custody process which WIWSA had posted to members through the website. If you have questions you can email us and we can make sure it gets to the right person to respond.

Thanks to everyone for coming out of the sunshine to meet together and special thanks to our speakers and guests for taking the time to meet.

RECAP: Group B Meetup; April 16, 2026; 5:00 to 6:30 pm ZOOM Only

The first Group B meeting for 2026 was held on April 16, 2026 over Zoom with 13 Group B water systems represented and about 20 attendees all together. Michael Quintus, Whidbey Island Water Systems Association (WIWSA) board member led the meeting off with a review of the agenda and had attendees introduce themselves.

After Michael gave a brief recap of the previous three Group B Meetups in 2024 and 2025, Aneta Hupfauer and Tracy Hall spoke about Group B planning and introduced a streamlined template for Group B water systems to prepare a draft plan. There are links below to the presentation and the templates themselves.

Using the templates can serve as a basic water systems plan or as a draft of the basic information needed to start on a formal Small Water System Management Program (SWSMP). The Group B Water System Management Plan is accessible from the Island County Drinking Water webpage. It can be found in two places:

  1. https://www.islandcountywa.gov/1008/Public-Water-Systems [Drinking Water > Public Water Systems > Group B Public Water Systems (under Resources)]
  2. https://www.islandcountywa.gov/661/Documents-and-Forms [Drinking Water > Documents and Forms > Drinking Water Program (under Group B Water System Guide for Approval)]

Next, Michael presented a review of Cook Water Supply Operations, an 8-connection Group B system in North Whidbey that he manages for his community. It’s a nicely designed and well-maintained system which includes 2 source wells along with filtering systems for both manganese and arsenic. A link to the presentation is also included below.

An open forum followed with questions on SMAs, booster pumps and filtering systems among other topics.

You can view the recording below or view the presentations yourself. If you want to be notified of future Group B meetings, be sure to register your email for meeting notices by subscribing to the newsletter and specify that you are on a Group B system.

Recordings and Presentation Materials:

Meeting & Event Archives

Browse the meeting archives which include all meeting agendas, minutes and reports along with some presentations that were included in those meetings.

All Member Meetings (2015-present) — All quarterly, special and annual member meetings since 2015.

Group B Meetups (2024-present) — New meetings with Group B water system board members and residential water users.

Community Events (2015-present) — Other events or meetings hosted by WIWSA, our partners or other community members.