NGWA announced its 2020 Board of Directors following Groundwater Week 2019, December 3-5 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Newly elected NGWA President Merritt Partridge, CVCLD, is one of the youngest — if not the youngest — presidents to lead the Association in 2020. The 33-year-old was featured in the November 2019 issue of Water Well Journal®, “A Young Man’s Game.” Partridge spoke of his hopes and plans for NGWA in 2020 in being efficient and effective as an association during the Delegates Meeting.
Four were elected to the NGWA Board of Directors during the Delegates Meeting:
- Jeremy Bach
- Seth Kellogg, PG
- Robert C. Keyes
- Chauncey Leggett, CWD/PI.
Keyes, of the NGWA Contractors Section Board of Directors, was elected to his second term as NGWA director. This marks Bach and Leggett’s first terms on the Contractors Section Board of Directors.
In addition to serving as NGWA director, Kellogg was elected as the Scientists and Engineers Section Board vice-chair.
The 2020 NGWA Board of Directors is as follows:
- President — Merritt Partridge, CVCLD
- President-Elect — Brian Snelten, PG
- Secretary — Jason House, CG, PG
- Treasurer — Dave Traut, MGWC, CVCLD
- Vice President, Contractors — Robert Keyes
- Vice President, Scientists and Engineers — Tim Parker, PG
- Vice President, Suppliers — Dan Collins
- Vice President, Manufacturers — Greg Tech
- Past President — Scott King, PG, P.Geo., LHG
- Seth Kellogg, PG — Scientists and Engineers
- Jeremy Bach — Contractors
- John Boyette Jr., CVCLD — Contractors
- Patrick Casarez — Contractors
- Fred Rothauge, CWD — Contractors
- Richard Layman, MGWC, CVCLD — Contractors
- Chauncey Leggett, CWD/PI — Contractors
- Jim LoCoco — Manufacturers
- Eric Macias — Manufacturers
- Jon Chisholm — Suppliers
- Blake Talkmitt — Suppliers.