The Solid Waste Association of North America awarded its "2010 Gold Waste to Energy Excellence Award” to the Montgomery County Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). This award considers all aspects of waste to energy operations and represents the highest level of excellence among the nation’s nearly one hundred facilities.
Having also received the SWANA Gold Waste to Energy Excellence Award for the years 1998 and 2005, this is the third time that the Montgomery County RRF has received SWANA Gold for its waste to energy facility.
Other awards received in the past for the County's facility include:
- American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) - Excellence in WTE Operations, 2000
- American Association of Environmental Engineers (AAEE) - Excellence in Environmental Engineering, Grand Prize for Operations/Management, 1998
- American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) - National Capital Section Outstanding Civil Engineering Project, 1997
--posted by Bill Davidson, Chief, Northern Operations, Emissions, Strategic Planning
