About Us
AmeriWest Water Services, Inc. was founded on ethical and Christian principles that serve to promote and cultivate relationships we develop with our customers and their communities.
With teamwork and mutual respect as hallmarks, we will continually find ways to give back to those communities. A mutually trusting relationship is paramount to the success of any AmeriWest Water Services program.
Our mission is to fulfill the needs of our customers by providing the highest degree of personalized water treatment services, and in doing so, we will exceed expectations with the water industry's most innovative and advanced water treatment products and expert knowledge and experience.
Our History
Name: LeRoy Y. Palmer
Company: AmeriWest Water Services Inc.
P.O. Box 44683
Boise Idaho 83711
Phone: 208-861-3410
Biography:
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LeRoy Palmer was born and raised in Brigham City Utah.
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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.
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After graduation, he worked for Boise Water Corporation in Idaho as the laboratory director and water quality specialist from 1977 to 2000.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He has served on the Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) Water Quality Committee and is a board member of the South East Idaho Sub Section of AWWA.
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He is serving a 3-year term on the Ground Water Protection and Management Subcommittee which serves under the Government Affairs Committee, with the National Groundwater Association.
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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.