Chapter Corner: Big Bend is Back Reactivating the Chapter—Felicity

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Florida Water EnvironmentvAssociation hosts this article to celebrate the success of recent association chapter activities and inform members of upcoming events. To have information included for your chapter, send details to Melody Gonzalez at gonzalezm@bv.com. Melody Gonzalez

Big Bend is Back: Reactivating the Chapter

Big Bend Chapter is active again and looking for volunteers

2022 Big Bend Chapter leadership at the Leadership Development Workshop. Felicity Appel and Lina Polo

Getting Started

The Big Bend Chapter began its triumphant return as an active chapter at the 2022 FWEA Leadership Development Workshop in February where a plan was laid out to garner interest and active participants in the chapter’s events. The plan includes hosting several social and technical events in the second half of 2022 and reactivating the FWEA student chapter at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University (FAMU-FSU) College of Engineering.

As part of our planned activities, we hosted our first social event—a happy hour at a local Tallahassee brewery on June 9. This was a joint event with Region I of FSAWWA, and it was the chapter’s first official event in several years. We expect to hold at least two more events in 2022. More details are to come, so keep your eyes on the list of upcoming events.

Last, but not least, our chapter is working on reactivating the student chapter at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, and some chapter members attended a recruiting event there. Our chair, Felicity Appel, gave a presentation to an environmental engineering class at the college to determine if there was an

interest in joining the student chapter. We now have nine students that have signed up with the college to join the student chapter in the fall of 2022.

Show Your Support!

We are currently seeking volunteers and sponsors to join us in the revitalization of the Big Bend Chapter.

Our current board is comprised of: S Chair – Felicity Appel P.E., Kimley-Horn S Vice Chair – Lina Polo, E.I., City of

Tallahassee S Secretary – Open Position S Treasurer – Open Position

If you would like more information about getting involved, either as an individual or with company support, please feel to reach out to Felicity Appel at felicity.appel@kimley-horn.com.

Felicity Appel, P.E., is the FWEA Big Bend Chapter chair and Lina Polo, E.E., is the FWEA Big Bend Chapter vice chair. S

Members enjoy happy hour.