Environmental Awards

Chesapeake Bay Community Award
The City of Rockville was recertified in November 2005 as a Gold level Chesapeake Bay Partner, the highest level of distinction in the Chesapeake Bay Partner Community Awards Program. Rockville received the award for the City’s demonstrated commitment to restoring and protecting the Bay, its rivers and its streams. To learn how Rockville meets the various environmental benchmarks, read through the City's application, Chesapeake Bay Partner Community Award Environmental Benchmarks (pdf).

Commuter Connection Award
Commuter Connections is a regional network of transportation organizations coordinated by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The  Commuter Connections Annual Employer Recognition Awards recognizes employers who  have voluntarily initiated programs that facilitate the use of alternative  commuting methods such as transit, teleworking, carpooling/vanpooling and  bicycling. These methods help to mitigate traffic congestion and provide for  cleaner air through reduced auto emissions.  Rockville received the Consumer Choice Initiative Award for Telecommuting (2002).

President's Volunteer Service Award
In September 2007, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson presented the City of Rockville’s Commission on the Environment with the President’s Volunteer Service Award for their outstanding work to improve public health and create a healthier environment.  Some of the valuable work done by the commission included reviewing and commenting on a draft water quality protection ordinance, reviewing a proposal to reinvent how Rockville handles refuse and recycling, commenting on energy-efficiency and green-building opportunities for a proposed community center, and recommending a green building and development policy.

PISCES Award
EPA issued the City of Rockville its 2007 Performance and Innovation in the State Revolving Fund (SRF) Creating Environmental Success (PISCES) Award. This award is designed to recognize SRF borrowers that have been the most innovative and effective at advancing EPA’s goals of performance and protection through the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program. Rockville received the award for its Watts Branch Stream Restoration project. The Restoration project was designed to minimize and control channel erosion, reduce pollutant loadings from the eroding stream banks, enhance stream and forest habitat, protect and enhance existing wetlands, control invasive vegetation and establish native plants, as well as, protect existing utilities and retaining walls.

Commuter Choice Leadership "Best Workplace for Commuters SM"
The U.S. Environmental  Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the City of Rockville in 2003 for contributing to  easing commuting traffic in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commuter Choice Leadership “Best Workplace for Commuters SM” designation recognizes  employers who are working to reduce traffic congestion and traffic-related air pollution. The City's Parc-It program "efforts ensure that the ride to work – and to a clean environment – will be smoother for generations to come."

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