LeRoy Palmer

Name: LeRoy Y. Palmer
Company: AmeriWest Water Services Inc.
P.O. Box 44683
Boise Idaho 83711
Phone: 208-861-3410

Biography:

• LeRoy Palmer was born and raised in Brigham City Utah.
• After receiving a Bachelors degree in microbiology at Weber State College, he received a Masters degree from Brigham Young University in microbiology. His research at BYU was related to the movement and disappearance of virus particles in Dear Creek Reservoir.
• After graduation, he worked for Boise Water Corporation in Idaho as the laboratory director and water quality specialist from 1977 to 2000.
• While employed by Boise Water, he maintained a State Certified Microbiology Laboratory where he performed over 50,000 total coliform water tests in over 22 years.
• In 2000, he co-founded AmeriWest Water Services, where he has formulated and developed over 40 NSF Standard 60 Certified water treatment chemicals. Working with municipalities from Seattle to Denver, he does extensive consulting on water quality issues and groundwater well maintenance and rehabilitation.
• He holds an Idaho Class IV-Drinking Water Treatment Operator License and has been certified as a Cross-Connection Control / Backflow Assembly Tester since 1978.
• He has served on the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Water Quality Committee and is a former board member of the South East Idaho Sub Section of AWWA.
• He is a member of the American Water Works Association, the Idaho and Utah Ground Water Associations, the Nation Groundwater Association and has participated in numerous AWWA, Idaho and Utah Rural Water Conferences, teaching such topics as customer complaints, reservoir water quality, valve maintenance, corrosion control, chlorination, iron and manganese control and well maintenance and rehabilitation.