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Chelan PUD is an award-winning utility, often recognized for its innovation and achievements.

2009 Awards
Northwest Public Power Association’s Safety Award, recognizing Chelan PUD’s safety results based on more than 1,000,000 staff hours of exposure for 2008. The safety results consider the number of recordable injury/illness cases and lost work days.

2008 Awards
Hydro Achievement Award from National Hydropower Association in category of "Operational Excellence" for the PUD's comprehensive security program.

State "lifesaving and humanitarian" award for heroic acts that saved lives: Chelan County PUD employees Blake Hancock, Mike Broderson and Jose Urrutia saved a man from drowning after he fell down an embankment into the Columbia River at Walla Walla Point Park.

Northwest Public Power Association’s Excellence in Communication contest recognized Chelan County PUD for its top communication efforts with an award for the Internet Web site and 2007 Annual Report.

2006 Awards
National Hydropower Association's Public Education Hydro Achievement Award, in recognition of the River of Power program.

National Hydropower Association's Outstanding Stewardship of America's Rivers Award, in recognition of the Rocky Reach and Rock Island Habitat Conservation Plans.

2005 Awards
National Hydropower Association's Outstanding Stewardship of America's Rivers Award, in recognition of the Rocky Reach and Rock Island Habitat Conservation Plans.

2004 Awards
E.F. Scattergood System Achievement Award is presented to one or two utilities annually for overall achievement and customer benefits. Chelan County PUD has won the award twice before, in 1959 and 1991, and now becomes only the second utility in the country to win it three times.

National Hydropower Association's Technological Solutions Hydro Achievement Award, in recognition of the Rocky Reach juvenile fish bypass system.

Paul J. Raver Award, Northwest Public Power Association, in recognition of Chelan County PUD community service.

2003 Awards
Interstate Renewable Energy Council 2003 National Renewable Energy Recognition Award, in recognition of the SNAP (Sustainable Natural Alternative Power) program.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission Certificate of Appreciation, 2003, in recognition of cooperative efforts that allowed the state to keep operating PUD parks during a difficult state budget crunch.

American Fisheries Society Western Division Conservation Achievement Award, 2003, in recognition of construction of the $112 million fish bypass system at Rocky Reach Dam.