Vallejo Water Meter Upgrade Project

The City of Vallejo is excited to share this update about the upcoming citywide water meter upgrade project. The upgrade reflects the City’s commitment to maintaining and optimizing your drinking water system. The majority of Vallejo’s 38,000 water meters are beyond their useful life of 20 years and need to be replaced. The new meters will use advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). AMI is the well-established standard for water metering across the water industry.

In Vallejo, the AMI project is expected to result in water savings of over three million gallons per year, which will strengthen Vallejo's long-term water supply. Once implemented, AMI increases the precision of meter reading by providing 15-minute interval data from meters to both customers and the City through a safe and secure signal. In addition to water savings, the technology will allow timely detection of service breaks and leaks, support the City in implementing monthly billing (presently bi-monthly for residential customers), and strengthen overall billing efficiency. AMI also provides a user-friendly customer interface to empower customers to manage their individual water usage better and to communicate with the City on water-related matters more easily.

The AMI project is part of the Council-approved Water Capital Improvement Program. AMI is primarily funded by the Water 2021 revenue bond. In addition to bond funds, the Water Department received a $2 million grant awarded by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. To obtain qualified and experienced AMI contractors, the City issued a request for proposals, evaluated applicants, selected the most qualified and experienced, and negotiated a proposed contract. Council is to consider approval of the contract at the Regular Council Meeting on May 9th.

City Council meeting agendas are published a week before each Council meeting. However, because the AMI contract is complex and lengthy, it is being shared two weeks in advance to give Council and the community the chance to read it thoroughly. Also shared here is the Executive Summary of the AMI project, along with videos of two staff presentations about AMI on July 12, 2022, and April 18, 2023. On April 18th, the City Council held a workshop on AMI where Water and other City staff shared details of the project and the proposed contract. AMI is a collaboration among staff from the Water, Finance, and Information Technology Departments.

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