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Council awards contract for Livingston test well 18; drilling, testing timeline outlined
Summary
The council awarded a contract for a test well (Well 18) to the lowest responsive bidder, enabling the city to locate water-bearing strata, begin Title 22 water-quality testing and later design a production well; staff estimated drilling will take about a month and production could come online by mid‑2027.
The Livingston City Council voted 5-0 on Feb. 18 to accept the low bid and award a contract for Test Well 18 to the lowest responsive bidder, enabling the city to proceed with hydrogeologic testing and water-quality analysis necessary to design a production well.
City Engineer Mario Gouveia and Public Works staff described the procurement and next steps. Bids were opened on the fourth and the lowest responsive bid was from a local well driller for $117,700 (staff read the bid as "a hundred and $17,700"). Gouveia said the awarded contract covers a test well that will locate water-bearing strata, allow sampling for Title 22 water‑quality testing, and help determine where perforations for a production well should be placed.
Gouveia and Anthony Chavarria of Public Works outlined the schedule: drilling the test well should take about a month of contractor work once preconstruction and scheduling are set; laboratory Title 22 testing of samples typically takes about three weeks; and, based on current assumptions, the production well is targeted to be online by mid‑2027.
Council members asked for regular updates. One councilmember requested that staff notify the council through the city manager’s office when the contractor is issued a notice of award, when drilling begins, and when samples are sent to the lab; staff agreed to provide those updates.
During technical discussion staff cautioned that water-quality constituents are not known until testing is complete. Gouveia said typical issues in Livingston wells include TCP and, in some locations, arsenic; the Title 22 analysis will identify constituents and concentrations to inform later design decisions.
The motion to award the contract was made by Mayor Pro Tem Samra and seconded by Councilmember Wallace. Roll call was unanimous: Councilmembers Roth, Oppel, Wallace, Mayor Pro Tem Samra and Mayor Moran voted yes.
