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County describes vendor switch and DEQ 'assessment monitoring' approach; staff notes retesting costs
Summary
Staff described switching environmental monitoring vendors and said the county is in DEQ 'assessment monitoring'—meaning repeated retesting for a single hit is not routine—and said past retests have cost between $20,000 and $40,000 each.
County staff discussed a change in the environmental water-monitoring vendor and explained the county's current monitoring status under DEQ terminology.
Speakers said the new company has staff with long experience in water monitoring and that the county moved to the new vendor partly for that experience and potential cost savings. The transcript records that the county is in "assessment monitoring," and staff explained that under assessment monitoring a single detection does not automatically trigger the kind of repeat sampling that would occur under detection monitoring.
A staff member also said retesting in past instances had cost between $20,000 and $40,000 per retest, a factor the county considered in vendor selection and testing strategy. "Each of these rest retesting in advance was between 20 and $40,000," the staff member said.
No formal policy change or contract award vote is recorded in the Jan. 13 excerpt; the discussion focused on technical monitoring distinctions and vendor experience.
