Tempe awards $700,000 wastewater monitoring contract
City of Tempe Water Utility Department, Arizona · Meeting date: October 15, 2026 · Published: October 16, 2026
Tempe City Council has approved a one-year contract with Western Environmental Equipment Company for wastewater sampling services and flow-monitoring equipment. The agreement includes four one-year renewal options.
Key points
- Western Environmental Equipment Company will provide wastewater sampling services and flow-monitoring equipment under a contract capped at $700,000 for its first year.
- The contract includes four optional one-year renewals.
- Funding is appropriated from the Water and Wastewater Fund through the Environmental – Compliance and Environmental – Sampling cost centres.
- Council approved the consent agenda, including the contract, unanimously by a 7-0 vote on 15 October.
Full report
Tempe City Council has approved a one-year wastewater sampling and flow-monitoring contract with Western Environmental Equipment Company, authorising expenditure of up to $700,000 in the first year.
The supplier will provide wastewater sampling services and flow-monitoring equipment for the city. The agreement also gives Tempe four one-year renewal options, creating a potential longer-term procurement route for the utility's environmental sampling and compliance functions.
The contract is funded through Tempe's Water and Wastewater Fund, with appropriations identified in the Environmental – Compliance and Environmental – Sampling cost centres. The agenda states that the funding is available for anticipated spending in the current and next fiscal years, subject to council approval of annual budgets.
The award was included in the 15 October consent agenda and passed unanimously, 7-0.
The council also approved other water-utility-related consent items, including a $489,000 professional-services contract with Carollo Engineering for asset maintenance at the Butte Reservoirs and a $106,690.34 pre-construction contract with Felix Construction Company for Well Improvements Phase II at the South Tempe Water Treatment Plant's Well 15. However, the Western Environmental Equipment award is the largest single water and wastewater procurement approved at the meeting.
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Source: Regular City Council Meeting, City of Tempe Water Utility Department