2025 Competition Winners

Water-Taste-Test-Winner

Eugene Stephens, Henrico Water, Virginia Section, Best of the Best Trophy

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Hydrant Hysteria

Women’s Hydrant-Hysteria

First Place: Elsinore Valley Hydrant Belles, California/Nevada Section, 1:18:18
Second Place: Union County, North Carolina Section, 1:26:97
Third Place: Oak Creek, Wisconsin Section, 1:36:25
Fourth Place: Region of Peel, Ontario Section, 1:41:56

Men’s Hydrant-Hysteria

First Place: BJWSA, South Carolina Section, 1:07:00
Second Place: Lake Meridian Water, Pacific Northwest Section, 1:07:09
Third Place: Union County, North Carolina Section, 1:15:68
Fourth Place: Bristol Water & Sewer, Connecticut Section, 1:30:62

Pipe Tapping

Women’s Pipe Tapping

First Place: Grit City Grind, Tacoma Water, Pacific Northwest Section, 2:29:47 (Returning Champions)
Second Place: Alamo City Tappers, San Antonio Water Systems, Texas Section, 2:57:75
Third Place: Lansing Lethal Ladies, Michigan Section, 3:08:31

Men’s Pipe Tapping

First Place: Alamo Drillerz, Texas Section, 1:10:87
Second Place: BWWB Blue Team, Alabama-Mississippi Section, 1:16:38
Third Place: SADM Apodaca, Mexico Section, 1:17:31
Fourth Place: Michigan Tappers, Michigan Section, 1:22:82
Fifth Place: Big Blue Tappers, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Chesapeake Section, 1:32:21

Top Ops

First Place: Turbidity Chasers, Indiana Section
Second Place: City of Elgin, Illinois Section
Third Place: Str8 Drippin’, Chesapeake Section
Fourth Place: City of Alcoa, Kentucky-Tennessee Section

AWWA Meter Challenge

1st Place: Craig Dalton, South Carolina – Time 28.09 sec
2nd Place: Michael Sherwood, Virginia – Time 31.97 sec
3rd Place: Kiley Rodriguez, California/Nevada – Time 40.07 sec
4th Place: Nick Webb, Alabama Mississippi – Time 49.47 sec

Tap Water Taste Tests

The “Best of the Best” Water Taste Test is comprised of regional AWWA section winners of water taste test competitions.

A panel of esteemed judges rates each water sample on its flavor characteristics.

People’s Choice

1. Denver Water, Rocky Mountain Section
2. City of Appleton, Department of Utilities, Wisconsin Section
3. City of Bloomington, Minnesota, Minnesota Section

Best of the Best

1. Henrico Water, Virginia Section
2. Taylorsville Bennion Valley, Intermountain Section
3. City of Ames, Iowa Section