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Environment Award

 

NACWA recognizes outstanding service and commitment to the environment with the Environmental Service Award.

 

2015 Honoree

Nancy Stoner
Former Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

2014 Honorees

The Honorable Eric Garcetti
Mayor, City of Los Angeles, CA

James A. Parrott
Executive Director, Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, OH

Jeffery A. Eger
Former Executive Director, Water Environment Federation, VA

 

2013 Honorees

Richard D. Fox
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, CDM Smith

Dr. Patricia Hagen
Executive Director, Audubon Center at Riverlands, MO

James A. Hanlon
Former Director, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Wastewater Management

Ann J. Kulchin
City Council Member, City of Carlsbad, CA

 

2012 Honorees

George Hawkins
General Manger, DC Water, DC

Steven P. Graef
Environmental Consultant, Renewable Water Resources, SC

Steve Clouse
Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, San Antonio Water System, TX

Neil Mullane
Former Water Quality Division Administrator, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, OR

Christine True
Department Director, King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks, WA

 

2011 Honorees

Dick Champion
Chair, Clean Water America Alliance Board of Directors, DC

Arleen Navarret
Former Regulatory Compliance Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, CA

 

2010 Honorees

The Honorable James Oberstar
U.S. House of Representatives

The Honorable Jan Perry
Councilwoman, Ninth District, City of Los Angeles, CA

 

2009 Honoree

Benjamin H. Grumbles
Former Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

2008 Honoree

The Honorable Earl Blumenauer
U.S. House of Representatives

 

2007 Honoree

James Range
Chairman, Board of Directors, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, VA

 

 

2006 Honoree

Stephen L. Johnson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

 

2005 Honorees

Geoffrey Grubbs
Director, Office of Science & Technology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Joseph Stepun
Manager of Environmental Services, Western Lake Superior Sanitary District, Duluth, Minn.

 

2004 Honorees

G. Tracy Mehan, III
Assistant Administrator Office of Water (2001-2003), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Paul Pinault
Executive Director, Narragansett Bay Commission, Providence, R.I.

 

2003 Honorees

David K. Hufford
Former Division Manager, Wastewater Operations, City of Tacoma, Tacoma, Wash.

Prakasam Tata
Former Assistant Director of Research and Development, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

 

2002 Honorees

Michael B. Cook
Director, Office of Wastewater Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

Edward F. Curley
Planning Manager, Pima County Wastewater Management, Tucson, Ariz.

 

2001 Honorees

The Honorable Jim Saxton, (R-NJ)
United States House of Representatives

Billy G. Turner
President, Columbus Water Works, Columbus, Ga.

 

2000 Honoree

Carol M. Browner
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

1999 Honorees

Cecil Lue-Hing
Former NACWA President, Director of Research and Development, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago, IL

Donna Reifschneider
President, National Pork Producers Council, DC

 

1998 Honoree

William D. Ruckleshaus
Former EPA Administrator & Chairman of the Board of Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.

 

1997 Honoree

The Honorable Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
Chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Clean Water & Environment

 

1996 Honorees

The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
Retired Chair, House Public Works & Transportation Committee

Joseph P. Niehaus
Former Superintendent of the Wastewater Collection Division of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, OH

 

1995 Honoree

Ruth Patrick
Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology, Academy of the Natural Sciences, PA

 

1994 Honoree

Keith Linn
Environmental Specialist, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, OH

 

1993 Honoree

Dr. Frank M. Fisher
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority & Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Rice University

 

1992 Honorees

EPA National Sewage Sludge Regulations with special recognition to:
Alan L. Page; Terry J. Logan; James A. Ryan; and Rufus L. Chaney

 

1991 Honoree

John J. Gunther
Distinguished federal career

 

1990 Honorees

Leon G. Billings
Former Staff Director, Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

Richard J. Sullivan
Former Staff Director, House Public Works & Transportation Committee

 

1989 Honoree

James R. Borberg
General Manager, Hampton Roads Sanitation District, VA

 

1988 Honoree

Cecil Lue-Hing
Director of Research and Development, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago, IL

 

1987 Honoree

Robert C. Canham

 

1986 Honoree

Frank B. Whittemore

 

1985 Honoree

William A. Hasfurther

 

1984 Honoree

Jim Ellis

 

1983 Honoree

No Recipient