Stevie Kokita and Bruce Johnson were awarded certificates of valor at the Aug. 13 Des Moines City Council meeting.
The other five men who received the award were unable to attend.
Kokita and Johnson were both involved rescuing a man who had driven his car off the Des Moines Marina last June.
Captain Englebert and Lieutenant Osburn from the United States Coast Guard presented the certificates on behalf the Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard.
Sam O'Neil was also given a certificate for completion of his Eagle Scout project in Des Moines.
In other business, the city's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) ordinance was passed after its second public hearing.
The goal of NPDES is to stop and or limit discharges into the city's stormwater system, surface waters, ground water and Puget Sound.
The council amended the ordinance to allow single-family residential lawn watering and lawn watering or other irrigation for businesses and multifamily residences as long as they use best management practices.
"That's absurd, that's regulations gone crazy," said Mayor Pro Tem Dan Sherman. "It is excessive regulation to tell people they can't water their lawns."
Sherman added that economics will keep people from doing that.
This ordinance was required to be passed by Aug. 15.
It will take effect 30 days after its passage and approval.
A discussion on Water District 54 has been pushed back for a couple of months until issues can be further worked through. A councilmember will be sitting in on water district meetings.