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Four States Irrigation Council Past Award Recipients


Water Master Award

2015
​2014
2011
Kenny Nelson
​Brian Werner
Special Recognition Award - John Lawson

Ditchrider Award

Award Programs

2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
​2011
2010
2008

2007

2006
2004
2003
2002
2000

1999
1996
1995
1994
1992

Lee Orton
​Veronica Gomez
Ann Bleed
Mike Purcell
John Lawson*
Norm DeMott
Tom Knutson
John Lawson
Pete Juba
Ken Nelson
Roger Patterson
John W. Keys, III
Kent Heidt
Maryanne Bach
Northern Water
Eluid Martinez
J. Michael Jess
Candee Werth
Robert Prouty
Bob Kutz
Sam Shimamoto


*Special Recognition Award
1991

1990

1989
1988
1987

1986
1985


1983

1981
1980

1976
1972
1970
1968
1961
Beryl Churchill
Frank Dragoun
Jim Rawlings
John Engen
Jim Hokit
Mars Garey
Les Sheffield
Brian Werner
Ken Whitmore
Bill E. Martin
Richard D. Black
Donald Brosz
J. Willis Ervin
Connie Rothwell
Tom Williamson
Joe Hall
Charles Calhoun
Gordon L. Cruse
Neil W. Schild
Nat Tolman
O.A. (Bud) Dolven
Ben H. King
2015 Award Winners
2014 Award Winners
2013 Award Winners
2012 Award Winners
2011 Award Winners
2010 Award Winners

Headgate Awards

Year
2019
2018
2017
​2016
​2015
​2014
2013
2012
2011
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2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004

​2003

​2002

​2001
2000
1999
1998
1997

​1996
1995
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1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983

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​1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
1960
1959
1958
​1957
Colorado
​Travis L. Smith

Dick Wolfe
​Richard Behrmann
​Frank Eckhardt, Jr
​Bob Sakata
Harold Nelson
David Simpson
Donnie McBee
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Jon Altenhofen
Gary Kennedy
Hal Simpson
Delbert Helzer
Keith Catlin
Mike Hungenberg
Tom Pointon

​Ralph Adkins

​John Porter

​Tom Cech
Don Ament
John Wilkins-Wells
Ralph Curtis
Robert Schlagel

​Jim Hokit
Duane Helton
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William "W.D." Farr
James L. Doyle
Carl Genova
Pete Nein
Frank Gould
Ed Blackburn
Robert W. Jesse
Jack Neutze
Kelly Boyce
Milton H. Nelson
A.E. Seymour
Bill Howland

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​Everett C. Long
John Bigham
Earl Phipps
​Harlan Seaworth
William Pattie
J. Ben Nix
Tommy Thomson
Frank Milenski
Harold Anderson
Clyde Helms, Jr. 
Roy D. Cooper
J. Sid Nichols
J.R. Barkley
Felix L. Sparks
Kyle Bryning
William Kelly
Charles Boustead
J.W. Preston
Fred Wright
E.F. Munroe
H.P. Amsley
Dr. Ivan D. Wood
Harold H. Christy
M.C. Hinderlider
Ralph Parshall
Charles A. Lory
Kansas
Sharon Schwartz

​Chris Beightel
​Earl Lewis
​Tracy Streeter
Don Lieb​
Mike Brzon
Monty Dahl
Jack B. Wergin
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Marvin Swanda
Brad Peterson
Stephen Ronshaugen
Barney Gordon
David Barfield
Arnold Ross
David Pope
​Dennis Allacher
Gary Housholder

Joe Hall
​Lee Orton
Andy Wilson
Merwin Kaser
Bob Dole
Scott E. Ross
Janis K. Lee

​Darwin Housholder
Loren Zabel
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Elvin Hobson
Thayne Larson
Louis Allen
Kenneth Nelson
Rob Raney
Fred Swoyer
Carl Freeman
Richard Black
Wayne Bossert
Jim Purcell
David Van Patten
Jim Wannamaker

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​Delmer Meyer
Dewayne Lindberg
Leland Stroup
Kenneth Tuley
Opal Conrad
Lyle Russell
DeLynn R. Hay
Keith S. Krause
Glen Graf
Clayton S. Flood
W.H. Sunderland
Keith G. Sebelius
Floyd Freeborn
Orvin Marquardt
Jack R. Nicholson
Walter Stephenson
John Ayers
Perry Sweat
Ward Douglas
Donald J. Magaw
Dr. E.H. Ahrens
Arno Windscheffel
Russ Herpich
R.V. Smrha
Guy W. Caldwell
​Chris A. Green

Nebraska
Rod Imm

​Kevin Adams
​Don Kraus
​Jim Jares
Brent Johnson
​Don Felker
Tim Anderson
Clifford Hanna
Jim Davidson

Dennis Strauch
Robert L. Peterson
Stephen Ronshaugen
Darwin Lee, Dale Nowak
Harlin Welch
Bob Andrews
Al Schmidt
Dennis Allacher

Ralph Best
Tom Knutson

Thomas L. Hayden

Donald E. Hughes
​Evlin Ebsen
Don Schepler
Chris K. Funk
Ronald B. Wolf

​Wallace E. Bean
​Norma Sitzman
Roy L. Patterson

Less Sheffield
Donald O. Winchell
Paul Pritts
Virginia Smith
Stanley Christensen
C.J. Hargleroad
We Sell
Henry Lange
Homer Loutzenheiser
Robert B. Crosby
Calvin Ewing
Keith Davis
Vernon Laverack
​R. D. Dirmeyer

Charles Harrison
Robert Thomas
Dr. Leo Beattie
Lester Johnson
Lee Vohland
C.P. Shaughnessy
Kenneth E. Carpenter
G.E. Exley
Vernon Krueger
Lawrence M. John
T.A. Johnson
Stanley J. Bowman
A.C. Splattstoesser
Harold T. Fintus
Don Thompson
Sen. Stanley Matzke
Dan Jones
Bob Colson
James P. Adams
A.L. Hoyt
Ralph O. Canaday
E.O. Daggett
Val Kuska
Harry Bashore
George E. Johnson
C.P. Peterson
Wyoming
​Ron Richner

​Byron Eisenbarth
​Rob Posten
​Linda Keeran
Len Chamberlain
​Bruce Good
Ron Richner
Brad Helzer
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Patrick T. Tyrell
Bruce Zimmerer
Robert Coxbill
Dan Melcher
Jim McClun
Bill Vandivort
Charles Osback

Kenneth Randolph
Herman Strand
Lawrence Mike Besson

James Best
LeRoy Feagler
Ronald Butch Francis
John H. Lawson
Donald D. Britton
​William "Bill" Jones
Emmett Coxbill
Bob Bressler

Norm DeMott
​Michael K. Purcell
Jack Miles
Gordon W. Fassett
Winston Churchill
Howard A. Haas
Ed Grenier
Neal S. Payne
Bill Franks
J. Kenneth Kennedy
Harold Shreve
Henry Garrelts

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​LeGrande Page
Millard Gowin
Myron Goodson
George Christopulos
Donald Brosz
Ralph Wells
Peter F. Anker
Earl Michael
L.E. "Buck" Whitman
Floyd A. Bishop
R.M. Sensintaffer
Charles H. Preuit
Floyd H. Pease
William R. Jones
Marlin T. Kurtz
Oscar Barnes
G.N. Goodrich
Wilma Lang
Earl Lloyd
Harry W. Kelly
W.J. Wehrli
E.T. Bower
I.J. Matthews
Dr. J.B. Fuller
H.T. Peterson
​L.C. Bishop
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