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Peak Perfomance Awards

National Association of Clean water Agencies’ (NACWA) Peak Performance Awards recognize member agency facilities for outstanding compliance of their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit limits. This recognition program consists of three categories – Platinum, Gold and Silver. The criteria for each category are as follows:

Platinum Awards
Platinum Awards recognize 100% compliance with NPDES permits over a consecutive five- year period.

Gold Awards
Gold Awards honor treatment works that have achieved 100 percent compliance with their NPDES permit for an entire calendar year.

Silver Awards
Silver Awards recognize facilities that have received no more than five NPDES permit violations per calendar year.

The Downriver facility has earned three peak performance awards in the last 4 years as follows:

2004 – Gold Award

2006 – Silver Award

2007 – Gold Award

2008 – Gold Award