The Arthur Sidney Bedell Award was established to acknowledge extraordinary personal service to a WEF Member Association. General criteria may include organizational leadership, administrative service, membership activity, stimulation of technical functions, or similar participation. The award is named for Arthur Sidney Bedell, WEF's second president for 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.
