WELCOME TO THE NIAGARA FRONTIER SECTION OF THE A&WMA

DINNER MEETINGS

Our next dinner meeting will be held on Thursday, April 25, 2024 and includes a tour of the Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The dinner meeting will be held at Fortuna's Restaurant & Banquets located at 827 19th Street, Niagara Falls, NY 14301.  A presentation will be made after dinner by Sean Costello, Esq. (Niagara Falls Water Board) and John Goeddertz, Ph.D. (AECOM).  Please click here to register.

The presentation on the Update to the NYS Solid Waste Management Plan made by David Vitale, P.E. at our March 21, 2024 dinner meeting can be viewed here.

To view some of our previous presentations, please click here.

ENVIRUN

The 32nd Envirun will be held on April 20 , 2024 on Goat Island at Niagara Falls State Park.  Click here to register and for more details.

EDUCATION

A&WMA-NFS is now accepting applications for Earth Day Grants.  Click here to view the application.  Applications are due by March 29, 2024.

A&WMA-NFS is now accepting applications for Scholarships for High School Seniors and Scholarships for College students who are not graduating this year.  Click here to view High School the application and here to view the College application.  Applications are due by April 5, 2024.

Unfortunately, A&WMA-NFS will not be accepting applications for the James G. Strickland Memorial NYSDEC Environmental Education Summer Camp Scholarship.  Last year, nearly all of the scholarship recipients were not able to register for a DEC Summer Camp session due to staffing issues at the various camps.  We have decided to give them all a scholarship this year with the hopes that they will be able to register for a DEC Summer Camp session this year.

SEMINAR

A&WMA-NFS and BAPG held their seminar on January 25, 2024 at Templeton Landing and it was a big success.  Click here to view the presentations.

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ABOUT THE NIAGARA FRONTIER SECTION OF A&WMA

The Niagara Frontier Section of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA NFS) is a non-profit organization for people involved in the environmental profession consisting of individual and corporate members from the Western New York area. Members come from local universities, governments, NYS Department of Conservation (NYSDEC), local industries, environmental engineering/consulting, legal firms and analytical testing. 

The Niagara Frontier is the Section of the Air & Waste Management Association located in Western New York.  The Niagara Frontier Section includes the chapter known as the Genesee Fingers Lake Chapter of AWMA.

Locally the AWMA NFS is involved in several areas which directly aid and promote environmental activities, including: monthly dinner meetings with guest topic speakers, an annual day-long environmental education seminar, scholarships for college students, Dave Sauer High School scholarship, Earth Day grants, and Envirun.

ABOUT THE AIR & WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION

Air and Waste Management (AWMA) (www.awma.org) is a technical and educational organization with over 16,000 members worldwide. The AWMA serves its members and the public by promoting environmental responsibility, and providing technical and managerial leadership in the environmental field.