RMWEA Arthur S. Bedell Award Recipients
The Arthur Sidney Bedell Award was established to acknowledge extraordinary personal service to a 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 Environment 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 by a Federation representative at the Member Association Annual Meeting.
Criteria:
The following RMWEA members have been awarded the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award by the Water Environment Federation:
| 1950 Leonard O. Williams Jr. | 1953 Charles G. Caldwell |
| 1959 R. P. Lowe | 1962 Jack Maquire |
| 1967 Ernest Hamilton | 1970 William Turney |
| 1973 K. D. Linstedt | 1974 Allen Jones |
| 1975 James E. Abbott | 1976 James B. Warner |
| 1977 Jack P. Sampson | 1978 William H. Hornberg |
| 1979 David Hubly | 1980 Howard Lacy |
| 1981 William Page | 1982 Daryl Gruenwald |
| 1983 William Martin | 1984 George Sellards |
| 1985 Bob A. Hegg | 1986 Robert E. Swedberg |
| 1987 Ron Schuyler | 1988 Dick Kuckenrither |
| 1989 Clark Tuck | 1990 Joe Tamburini |
| 1991 Robert T. Jelinek | 1992 Larry DeMers |
| 1993 William Brinker | 1994 Jim Ris |
| 1995 Tom Huston | 1996 Ron Mosher |
| 1997 Debra Campbell | 1998 Jose' Velazquez |
| 1999 Don Felke | 2000 Dale Butler |
| 2001 Brian Janonis | 2002 R. Wayne Ramey |
| 2003 Joseph D. Chwirka | 2004 Tom Dingeman |
| 2005 Steve Frank, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District | 2006 Debbie Stenson |