OKLAHOMA WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION

Awards Section

Burke Award 

The Association is soliciting nominations for the Burke Safety Award.  The award is presented every year to a wastewater treatment facility that has exhibited the best safety record in the past calendar year.  The evaluation criteria include the overall safety record, the plant’s safety plan, and other criteria established by the Association.  The Award consists of a plaque suitably inscribed with the selected facility’s name.  The presentation will be presented at the Association’s annual meeting on May 2, 2012.

Arthur Sidney Bedell Award 

The Association is soliciting nominations for the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award.  The award is now eligible for presentation every year to an individual who has provided extraordinary personal service to this Member Association. The award is named for Arthur Sidney Bedell, the second president of the Federation who exemplified its purpose by his long devotion and service to the New York Sewage and Industrial Wastes Association, now the New York Water Pollution Control Association.  He was Chief of the Bureau of Sewage and Waste Disposal of the New York State Department of Health.  The award consists of a plaque suitably inscribed with the recipient’s name and presented at the Association’s annual meeting on May 2, 2012. 

The evaluation criteria include: 

I.                    The recipient must be a member of the Oklahoma Water Environment Federation.  

II.                 Organizational Leadership, administrative service, membership activity, stimulation of technical functions, or similar participation. 

Nominations for this award should include a one-page biography of the individual being nominated. 

Laboratory Analyst Excellence Award

This award was established by the WEF Board of Directors in 1993 to recognize individuals for outstanding performance, professionalism and contributions to the water quality analysis profession.  The award consists of a plaque suitably inscribed with the recipient’s name and is presented by at the Association’s annual meeting May 2, 2012. 

Criteria:

I.                    Must be a member of the Water Environment Federation.

II.                 Candidate must be employed at an educational facility laboratory, industrial, commercial, or municipal laboratory which performs wastewater-related analysis, and must have direct analytical responsibilities.

III.               Candidates are eligible for this award only once.

IV.              Qualifying criteria may include:

·        Membership and involvement in professional associations.

Examples: Water Environment Federation Committees, Standard Methods Joint Task Groups, MA committees and conference activities.

·        Outstanding efforts in the area of wastewater and environmental aquatic analyses, including such items as innovative sampling techniques or solutions to a treatment, analytical or environmental problem.

·        Involvement in community activities or public relations.

·        Presentations at professional conferences, meetings, etc. relevant to water quality analysis.

·        Professional certifications.

·        Continuing education.

·        Contributions that have been beneficial to the nominees facility.

·        Unusual initiative or performance “beyond the call of duty”.

 William D. Hatfield Award 

The William D. Hatfield Award is presented to operators of wastewater treatment plants for outstanding performance and professionalism.  The award was established in honor of Dr. William D. Hatfield, Superintendent of the Decatur, Illinois Sanitary District, who was President of the Central States Sewage Works Association in 1944-45 and served as President of the Federation in 1958-59.

 The award consists of a plaque suitably inscribed with the recipient’s name and is presented at the Association’s annual meeting on May 2, 2012.

 Criteria:

Member Association controls the selection process following the Federation general criteria indicated below:

I.                    Must be a member of the Water Environment Federation.

II.                 A successful system of reports from the operator to his or her superiors that fulfill the information requirements and provide the operator with a forum for suggestions for improvements.

III.               Use of a good public relations program.

IV.              The nominee should have contributed to the dissemination of information concerning advancements in the field.

V.                 The size of the membership dictates the frequency with which Member Associations are eligible to make nominations for the award.

 Nominations must be submitted no later than March 5, 2012 for all awards

If you wish to make a nomination for any of these awards, contact Carl Parrott, Chairman of the Awards Committee, with your nomination.  If you have questions Carl can be reached as follows: