Nicholas J. Bartilucci is celebrating 40 years as a commissioner of the Jericho Water District. Bartilucci, former president and current Chairman of the Board of Dvirka and Bartilucci Consulting Engineers, in Woodbury, and Chairman of the Board of Water Commissioners of the Jericho Water District, was honored with a celebration on May 16.

Bartilucci's professional experience spans 50 years in civil and environmental engineering. He graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree and from New York University with a Master of Civil Engineering degree. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps in the Panama Canal Zone.

Bartilucci is licensed to practice engineering in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Florida, and is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

He is an active member in Professional Societies, Associations and Conferences, having served as president of the New York Water Environment Association, chairman of the Long Island Water Conference, director of the Water Pollution Control Federation, president of the Nassau-Suffolk Water Commissioners Association, the NGO representative to the United Nations' Economic and Social Council for the Water Environment Federation, and director of the Nassau County Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. He is currently the treasurer and a member of the executive committee of the New York Water Environment Association, a consulter to the Environmental Engineering Department at Manhattan College, a member of the Advisory Council of the Long Island Groundwater Research Institute at The University of Stony Brook, and a member of the Nassau County Water Resources Advisory Board.

Bartilucci has written numerous technical papers and has been the recipient of the Kenneth Allen Memorial Award and the Charles Agar Memorial Award from the New York Water Environment Association for meritorious papers and has also received the Arthur Sidney Bedell Service Award from the Water Environment Federation. He has been honored by the Coalition for the Protection of Long Island's Groundwater, the Coalition to Save Hempstead Harbor and the Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington for his outstanding professional contribution to the field of Water Quantity Management on Long Island.

The Nassau County Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers selected Bartilucci as "Engineer of the Year" in 1986 and has received the Distinguished Service and Community Service Awards from the same organization. He was the recipient of the 1997 Achievement Award presented by the Engineers Joint Committee of Long Island and was initiated and elevated to Manhattan College Chapter Honor Member of Chi Epsilon, the engineering honor society. He was the 1998 recipient of the George M. Fuller Award by the American Water Works Association and is the Water Environment Federation's 1999 Honorary Membership awardee. He was the recipient of the 2001 Life Time Achievement Award by the Long Island Chapter of the New York Water Environment Association, the 2003 Outstanding Professional Engineer in Management Award by the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, the George M. Diven, Jr. Award by the New York Section American Water Works Association in 2005, and was inducted in 2003 to the New York Water Environment Association Hall of Fame.

Bartilucci has been active in community, fraternal and charitable organizations having served as first vice president of the Center for the Developmentally Disabled and a member of the board of directors of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Association and is vice president of the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. He is an Extraordinary Minister, a member of the Special Projects Committee and served on the Pastoral Council at Saint Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church in Syosset. He also is a member of the American Legion, Knights of Columbus and the Sons of Italy. He was the Nassau County Italian-Americans in Government Services 2001 Honoree and the recipient of the 2003 Mary M. Lai Model of Faith Award by the Catholic Campus Parish of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.

Bartilucci is married and he and his wife, Joan, reside in the Village of Laurel Hollow. They have two sons and a daughter.