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Cowlitz County public works selects vendor approach to retrofit water meters; award to appear Tuesday
Summary
Public Works staff recommended an RFP award to add automated remote-reading capability to existing meters using ARPA funds rather than replacing all 1,300 meters, with an estimated contract not to exceed the earlier proposal and expected annual savings of about $18,000 by ending third‑party manual reads.
Savannah Clement, Public Works program manager for Cowlitz County, told the Board the department will present an RFP award for water meter upgrades at Tuesday's meeting after scoring proposals and interviewing the two top vendors. Clement said the county received board-approved ARPA funds for the project and sought proposals in October.
Clement said the county received approval “of ARPA funds to replace our county water meters” up to $550,000 and that the award will be lower than some proposals because the chosen vendor allows the county to retrofit many existing meters rather than buy new ones. “With the vendor we selected,…
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