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recognized for preserving and enhancing the water environment in the Pacific Island Region.

2005 Bedell

The 2005-2006 recipient of the Arthur Sidney Bedell award is Edie Eldeen, who is employed with the City & County of Honolulu’s Department Environmental Services, Regulatory Control Branch. Edie has been a member of WEF since 1978 and has served previously as HWEA Membership Chair (1990 to 1996) and as HWEA Conference Co-Chair (2006). Prior to moving to Hawaii, Edie was also very active in the Iowa Water Environment Association.

In Iowa, Edie planned and facilitated 6 semi-annual 2-day seminars for water and wastewater operators in 1979 to 1988 and actively participated in seminars sponsored by the Iowa State University and Iowa University. She was a founding member of the Iowa Wastewater Laboratory certification program and holds certification in both water and wastewater operations in Iowa.

She is a member of the WEF Membership Committee and also a member of the WEF Membership Diamond Club since 1995, sponsoring over 125 new members. She served on the first national Operations Challenge team for Iowa. She has also served as a Operations Challenge laboratory event judge at the WEFTEC held in Kansas City. Edie has also volunteered much of her time to facilitate and promote HWEA and the wastewater treatment field in Hawaii.

Edie has an extensive background in wastewater treatment plant operations. Prior to coming to Hawaii in 1988, Edie worked over 10 years at several wastewater treatment plants in Iowa in supervisory capacities, including an industrial wastewater treatment facility. At many of the facilities, she was the direct responsible charge for the day to day operations of the plants.

Edie has been employed by the City & County of Honolulu since 1988. From 1988 to 1992, she has worked as a Grade IV Operator at the Honouliuli Wastewater Treatment Plant, operating the multiple hearth furnace. From 1992 to 1999, she served as a Supervisor III assigned to the Wahiawa Wastewater Treatment Plant. There, she was not only responsible for the Wahiawa WWTP, but also the Whitmore Village Pretreatment Facility, Mililani Pretreatment Facility and nine employees. Duties included operations and maintenance of the facilities under a State of Hawaii Consent Decree. She also assisted in the pre-construction phase of the plant upgrade, perform public education tours and talks, trained new employees, wrote reports, conducted compliance monitoring, sampling, laboratory testing, procurement of supplies, grounds maintenance, and plant security. During this span of time, the plant received operational compliance awards each year.

Edie is currently the responsible charge of the City’s Liquid Waste Hauler Program. Her current duties include permitting, enforcement, compliance monitoring discharge sites, sampling, compliance monitoring of hauler submitted discharge reports, report writing, investigation work, maintenance of six individual databases, public education, forms design, hauler discharge billings pretreatment device inspection and enforcement, user permit program assistance, and procurement.

Edie’s contributions to HWEA and the water environment field have been considerable and she is always willing to put forth effort to educate people about the field. For these reasons, we congratulate Edie Eldeen as the 2005 – 2006 recipient of the Arthur Sidney Bedell Award.

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Hawai‘i Water Environment Association
PO Box 2422
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96804
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