Fall Mini-Conference
October 14-17, 2024
Alexandria, LA
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Thank you, everyone, for attending
the 2024 Annual Mini-Conference in Alexandria, LA!
Speaker, Jesse Means with DEQ provided LRWA with a copy of his Louisiana Aquifer Seminar presentation. You can click here to view the slide presentation. PRESENTATION
We look forward to seeing you again next year.
LRWA will email all exhibitors and speakers the attendee list in a few weeks. Several companies with representatives attending did not provide email addresses for us to send that list to. If you were in attendance and didn’t receive an email with the list, contact the LRWA by email (lrwa@lrwa.org) to request the list.
It's finally here!!!
Mini Conference Information!!!
Confirmation Letters
Classroom confirmation letters are alphabetically ordered according to last name and first name.
Exhibitor confirmation letters are alphabetically ordered according to Company name.
- Scroll through or click “Control F” to find/search for your letter.
- Once you find your letter click on it.
- Press Control “P” together for the shortcut to print.
- Choose to print the current page or custom to type the page number you need to print. By doing this you will print only your letter. If you do not specify the letter you need, the computer will print all letters.
- If printing more than one attendee letter, you must repeat steps 1-4 for each letter.
Exhibitors: We did not receive some representatives’ email addresses, without their email addresses we cannot send the the attendee list after the mini-conference.
200 Desoto Street; Alexandria, LA 71301
Discount room rate: $109.00+ tax (King and Double Queen). If tax exempt the form must be present at check-in.
Call the hotel for reservations at 318-442-2226 (front desk open 24 hours)
Or book online through the Hotel Bentley website: https://www.visithotelbentley.com/ (click on the Book Now tab, select dates needed for check-in and out, then add the Access Code LRWA)
Group code/Access Code LRWA
Make room reservations early, they sell out quickly.
The Hotel Bentley was constructed in 1907 by Joseph Bentley, a native of Pennsylvania who became wealthy in the lumber industry in Central Louisiana. During World War II, the United States military trained over half of a million troops in the Alexandria area. On November 15, 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. On August 1, 2012, plans were announced for local developer Michael Jenkins to renovate and reopen Hotel Bentley, with luxury condos, a 96-room hotel, meeting rooms, and a restaurant. The hotel has undergone a multi-million dollar restoration.
For more information about The Hotel Bentley About | Hotel Bentley (visithotelbentley.com)
701 4th Street; Alexandria, LA 71301
Discount room rate: $109+ tax (King and Double Queen)
Call the hotel for reservations at 318-541-8333 or the website at www.holidayinn.com (choose Alexandria hotel and enter LRW in the group code)
Group name/code: LRW
Discount Room Reservation deadline: September 22, 2024
Check-in: 3:00 PM Check-out: 11:00 AM
Welcome to the Holiday Inn Alexandria – Downtown in the heart of Alexandria, Louisiana. The hotel is five city blocks off of Interstate 49 resting on the banks of the Red River. The Holiday Inn Alexandria – Downtown is Alexandria’s premier full-service hotel. We have Crossroads Tavern, Southern Heritage Bank branch, and Aesthetician and Gold Dust Studio. Dine at Crossroads Tavern and enjoy a specialty Southern cocktail. Or sit in the mall area of the hotel and enjoy a cup of coffee or one of our signature coffee specialty drinks from the Coffee Corner. The hotel also has a gym, pool, and laundry room and we are a pet-friendly hotel, so bring your best friend and spend some quality time in the dog park adjacent to the hotel.
New presenter policy: LRWA will only accept presenters/speakers whose company or distributor has paid the current year’s membership dues and submitted a booth registration with payment for the conference.
The Louisiana Rural Water Association has opened the Call for Presentations for the Fall Mini-Conference scheduled for October 14-17, 2024, at the Randolph Riverfront Center, Hotel Bentley, and Holiday Inn Downtown in Alexandria, Louisiana. Please complete the online form for those wishing to volunteer to provide a presentation for consideration.
The deadline to submit a conference presentation is August 19, 2024, at which time LRWA will begin selecting presentations for the agenda.
We are looking for topics relevant to the water and wastewater industry (new technology, security, utility management, board training, etc.). The Mini-Conference offers training opportunities for all water and wastewater industry aspects, from operation to management to regulation. LRWA offers specialized education and networking opportunities specifically designed for utility managers, town council members, and utility board members.
**24-Hour Technical Classroom Sessions will be held October 15, 16, & 17 (Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday)
Louisiana Rural Water Association Mini-Conference is designed to bring together water and wastewater utility systems – large and small, municipal, and rural – for operations, management, boardmanship, and governance sessions.
LRWA has rescheduled the Annual Membership Meeting for October 12th at 1:30pm at the Hotel Bentley. The meeting room will be determined closer to the date. If you wish to attend please go to the LRWA Registration Desk on the 1st floor and we will be happy to direct you to the correct room.
Elections of officers and other association business will be conducted during the Annual Membership Meeting.
