Given in recognition of active and effective safety programs in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. Established in 1983.

     Recognizes a wastewater treatment facility based on the documented and illustrated safety program and safety record of the facility for the preceding calendar year.

Burke Sub-Committee Chair Tim Tack For Information, Contact: Eric Lecuyer, Executive Director 3809 Shenandoah Drive Crystal Lake, IL 60012 Phone: 815-954-2714 Fax: 815-356-3847 erlec@prodigy.net

2007 - North Shore Sanitary District

2006 - Not Awarded

2005 - City of Naperville, IL Springbrook WWT Facility
          Naperville, IL

2004 - Glenbard Wastewater
          Agency, IL

2003 - City of Elmhurst
          Elmhurst IL

2002 - Heart of the Valley Sanitary District
          Kaukauna WI

2001 - North Shore Sanitary District
          Gurnee IL

2000 - Beloit Wastewater Treatment Plant
          Beloit, WI

1999 - Gold'n Plump Poultry
          Cold Spring, MN

1997 - Rochester Water Reclamation Plant
          Rochester, MN

1996 - Fox River Water Pollution Control Center
          Brookfield, WI

1995 - Sheboygan Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant
          Sheboygan, WI

1994 - Janesville Water and Wastewater Utili
          Janesville, WI

1993 - Glenbard Wastewater Utility
          Glenbard, IL

1992 - Metropolitan Waste Central Commission, East Area Plants
          St. Paul, MN

1991 - Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
          Madison, WI

1990 - Kankakee Metropolitan Wastewater Utility
          Kankakee, IL

1989 - Village of Addison
          Addison, IL

1988 - Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District
          Urbana, IL

1987 - North Shore Sanitary District
          Gurnee, IL

1986 - Green Bay Metropolitan Sewage District
          Green Bay, WI

1985 - Metropolitan Waste Control Commission
          St. Paul, MN

1983 - Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District Jones Island Plant
          Milwaukee, WI

1. The Burke Award is made annually by WEF to a municipal or industrial wastewater facility for promoting an active and effective safety program.
   
2. The State Section Safety Committees shall be responsible for soliciting and accepting nominations and selecting no more than one facility from each state as nominees for the George W. Burke Award.
   
3. To be eligible for this award, at least one employee of the facility must have Association member status, unless otherwise specifically approved by the Executive Committee.
   
4. Nomination documentation shall include a narrative of the facility safety program and a summary of safety data prepared in a format suggested by WEF. Nominees shall submit eight copies of their documentation which shall be limited to six pages with two letters of recommendation for a total of no more than eight pages.
   
5. Nominations shall be submitted to the Chair of the State Section Safety Committee before November 1st of each year.
   
6. The State Section Safety Committees shall be responsible for accepting nominations and shall select no more than one facility from each State Section and submit these candidates to the General Awards Committee before December 1st of each year. A General Awards Committee recommendation will be submitted for the approval of the Association Executive Committee in advance of the annual meeting.
   
7. Following approval by the Association Executive Committee, the Executive Director shall forward the recommendation to WEF for approval by the WEF House of Delegates.
   
8. The award will be presented to the facility at the Association Annual Meeting following WEF House of Delegates approval.