WEF announces 2015 awards recipients

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Water Environment Federation (WEF) revealed the 2015 winners of its annual WEF Awards program, according to a press release.

The honorees include individuals and organizations that have contributed to the water environment profession, WEF and its member associations, noted the release. The awards will be presented at WEFTEC 2015 in Chicago in September.

The winners are:

• Collection Systems Award
  Bradley E. Fix
  Indiana Water Environment Association

• Eddy Wastewater Principles/Processes Medal
  "Ammonia-Based Feedforward and Feedback Aeration Control in Activated Sludge Processes," Leiv Rieger, Richard M. Jones, Peter L. Dold, and Charles B. Bott, Water Environment Research, January 2014, v. 86, no. 1, p. 63

• Emerson Distinguished Service Medal
  Andrew Richardson
  AZ Water Association

Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal
Francis L. de los Reyes III
North Carolina State University Paul C. Johnson
Arizona State University
• Gascoigne Wastewater Treatment Plant Operational Improvement Medal
  "Finding the Right System Balance", Darrell DeWitt, David L. Wagoner and Jacqueline Jarrell, Water Environment & Technology, February 2014, v. 26, no. 2, p. 32
• Wesley Eckenfelder Industrial Water Quality Lifetime Achievement Award
  James C. Young
• Innovative Technology Award
  Algaewheel – OneWater Inc.
• McKee Groundwater Protection, Restoration or Sustainable Use Award
  "Performance Evaluation of a Dual-Flow Recharge Filter for Improving Groundwater Quality", Manoj P. Samuel, S. Senthilvel and Abraham C. Mathew, Water Environment Research, July 2014, v. 86 no. 7, pp. 615-625
• Member Association Achievement Award
  Chesapeake Water Environment Association
• Outstanding Member Association Award
  New England Water Environment Association
• Outstanding Young Water Environment Professional Award
  Haley Falconer
  Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association
Public Education Awards
Member Association Category:
Indiana Water Environment Association

Other Category:
San Antonio Water System Youth Education IMPACT Program

• Public Officials Award
  Commissioner Frank Avila, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater ChicagoMaggie Brooks-Monroe County, New York County ExecutiveThe Honorable Laurel Prussing, Mayor of Urbana, Il
• Rudolfs Industrial Waste Management Medal
  "Start up and Commissioning of a Membrane Bioreactor Plant Treating a High TDS Refinery Wastewater", Mauro Marinetti, Kar Munirathinam, Bernardino Ciongoli, Carlo Zaffaroni, Ali Redha, Proceedings of WEFTEC 2014, pp. 2245-2260
• Schlenz Public Education Medal
  Ashley Halsey III & Bonnie Berkowitz
• Water Quality Improvement Award
  Roseburg Urban Sanitary Authority, Ore.
• WEF Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship
  Ryan Ziels
  University of Washington
• WEF Safety Award
  AR Wastewater Treatment Plant, Montrose, Mich.
  Orange County Sanitation District. Fountain Valley, Calif.


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