The Stege Sanitary District is part of a collective that was honored with the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) 2020 National Environmental Achievement Award (NEAA), Operations & Environmental Performance Category, for the “East Bay Wet Weather Collaboration to Significantly Reduce Infiltration and Inflow”.  The NACWA NEAA recognizes an innovative and effective project, system or method relating to wastewater treatment plant or collection system operations developed and successfully implemented in a cost-effective manner while achieving environmental compliance objectives. EBMUD and the seven satellite collection system agencies of Albany, Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont, and the Stege Sanitary District, under a collaboratively negotiated Consent Decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, use an asset management based approach to reduce infiltration and inflow at the source, rather than designing, constructing, and operating costly new storage and/or treatment facilities.  The approach includes identifying and eliminating major sources of Infiltration and Inflow, rehabilitating main sewer lines, and implementing a Regional Private Sewer Lateral (PSL) program that requires property owners to demonstrate that their PSLs are leak-free.