To maintain your CWRE certification, you must:
- Continue to meet at least one of the minimum qualifications.
- Pay your recertification fee each year.
- Maintain financial surety through insurance or bond.
- Complete at least eight hours of continuing education annually.
Recertification fees
The recertification fee is $100 if paid before your current certification expires. A late fee of $50 is added if you pay your fee within 30 days after the certification expires, or $100 for payment 31-to-90 days late.
Providing financial surety
You or your employer can hold any of the following as an acceptable showing of financial surety:
- $50,000 of general liability insurance,
- $50,000 of errors and omissions insurance, or
- $50,000 bond.
The financial surety must cover all acts taken when performing duties under your certification. If you perform duties under your certification solely for your employer’s water rights, you are exempt from the financial surety requirement.
Continuing education
The following are some of the 2021 formal training options available to meet the eight hours of continuing education required each year prior to recertification. You may also submit other training and conferences to the CWRE Coordinator to determine if they are eligible for credit, or use a multitude of informal options if approved by the coordinator.
- Annual Water Symposium, 2021 Joint AWRA & National Capital Annual Water Symposium, April 15 & 16, (7 credits for Day 1, 5 credits for Day 2)
- Water Law in Washington, Law Seminars International, June 10 & 11, credits TBD
- Groundwater Sustainability Implementation, Law Seminars International, July 22 & 23, credits TBD
- Water Law in Central Washington, The Seminar Group, August 12, 2021, TBD
- AWRA-Washington Annual Conference, American Water Resources Association, Washington
- AWRA-WA Calendar of Events (waawra.org), early October, credits TBD (Some of the webinars offered each month would also be worth credit, so you may wish to monitor this website.)
- Washington Water Code, The Seminar Group, November 18 & 19, 2021, 12 credits
To add a class, seminar, or conference related to water resource management to this list, please submit the agenda or curriculum information for consideration to cwre@ecy.wa.gov.