Wayne N. Aspinall Award
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Recipient of the 2023 Aspinall
Water Leader of the Year Award Patti Wells Denver Water TAP story about Patti receiving the Aspinall Award at the Annual Convention can be found HERE. The story includes a link to the announcement video that was shown during the award ceremony.
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The Colorado Water Congress presents the prestigious Wayne N. Aspinall “Water Leader of the Year” Award annually to an individual Coloradan who has long demonstrated courage, dedication, knowledge and strong leadership in the development, protection and preservation of Colorado water.
Honorees reflect those attributes so clearly possessed by the award’s namesake, Wayne N. Aspinall. The late Mr. Aspinall, a lawyer and former longtime member of the U. S. House of Representatives, remains one of the most influential water leaders in Colorado history.
Honorees reflect those attributes so clearly possessed by the award’s namesake, Wayne N. Aspinall. The late Mr. Aspinall, a lawyer and former longtime member of the U. S. House of Representatives, remains one of the most influential water leaders in Colorado history.
This award, established in 1980, is presented to that person exemplifying the courage, dedication, knowledge and leadership qualities shown by Wayne N. Aspinall in the development, protection and preservation of the water of the State of Colorado. The award need not necessarily be an annual one. Nominees may be any person who best demonstrated the “Aspinall” characteristics of leadership. The Aspinall Award shall be unique and meaningful in keeping with the qualities of the man for which the award was named. The leadership contribution shall have been significant in terms of the development, protection or preservation of some or all of Colorado’s waters.
Copies of each “Wayne N. Aspinall Water Leader of the Year” Award shall be prominently displayed in the CWC office.
Please submit your nomination form by August 31 for consideration of the award to be given at the upcoming Annual Convention in January of the following year.
Copies of each “Wayne N. Aspinall Water Leader of the Year” Award shall be prominently displayed in the CWC office.
Please submit your nomination form by August 31 for consideration of the award to be given at the upcoming Annual Convention in January of the following year.
Recipients of the Wayne N. Aspinall "Water Leader of the Year" Award
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1981 Ival V. Goslin*
1982 Glenn G. Saunders* 1983 Felix L. "Larry" Sparks* 1984 Charles L. "Tommy" Thomson* 1985 W. D. Farr* 1986 Fred V. Kroeger* 1987 Benjamin F. Stapleton* 1988 Ray D. Nixon* 1989 John M. Sayre* 1990 Frank E. "Sam" Maynes* 1991 William H. Miller* 1992 John R. Fetcher* 1993 Frank Milenski* 1994 Fred E. Anderson* 1995 J.R. "Bob" Barkley* 1996 Hank Brown 1997 Ralph Adkins* 1998 Stephen L.R. McNichols* 1999 Richard D. MacRavey* 2000 John Porter* 2001 Larry Simpson |
2002 L. Richard Bratton
2003 Ray Kogovsek* 2004 Ralph Curtis* 2005 Gale A. Norton 2006 David Smith* 2007 Lewis Entz 2008 Don Ament 2009 Tillie Bishop* 2010 Alan C. Hamel 2011 Eric Wilkinson 2012 David W. Robbins 2013 Diane Hoppe* 2014 James S. Lochhead 2015 Bill Trampe 2016 Harold Miskel 2017 Travis Smith 2018 Mark Pifher 2019 John McClow 2020 Christine Arbogast 2021 Jim Broderick 2022 Jennifer Gimbel 2023 Patti Wells |
*Deceased. We fondly remember those honorees who have passed on.