Salt Lake City Reclamation Plant Receives Performance Award

July 10, 2003

Salt Lake City's Water Reclamation Plant has earned its thirteenth AMSA "Gold Award." Currently the wastewater treatment facility has completed 133 consecutive months of perfect NPDES permit compliance. "The employees who operate and maintain this treatment plant are to be commended for their outstanding efforts in achieving this exemplary performance record," said Water Reclamation Manager Jon Adam upon receiving notice of the award.

The following letter notified the Department of Public Utilities of the award:

LeRoy W. Hooton, Jr.

Director

Salt Lake City Public Utilities

1530 South West Temple

Salt Lake City, UT 84115

Dear LeRoy;

Congratulations on your Peak Performance Award recognizing your facility's outstanding wastewater treatment effort!  Enclosed is your Gold certificate honoring your agency's achievement for the 2002 calendar year.

This year 203 AMSA member agency facilities were recognized with AMSA's Gold Award - a record number of honorees. AMSA's Gold Awards are presented to member agency facilities that achieve 100% compliance with their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for an entire year. In addition, 132 AMSA member agency facilities were honored with a Silver Award, which recognizes member agency facilities that have five or less NPDES permit violations in a calendar year. In fact, AMSA members achieved 99.98 percent compliance with their NPDES permits-member agency facilities logged only 268 permit violations compared to 1,092,437 permit violations nationwide. These numbers are truly impressive and reflect the level of excellence in environmental protection that all AMSA members strive for.

Congratulations again, and we hope that your agency continues its excellent compliance record!

Sincerely,

 Ken Kirk

Executive Director