Pasadena-based Tetra Tech Inc.’s latest trio of contracts have the 60-year-old company going back to its roots providing engineering services related to waterways and coastal zones.
Earlier this month, Tetra Tech announced a five-year, $25 million contract from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water to provide support to the EPA, state agencies and local communities to maintain clean water resources.
Under the contract with the EPA’s Standards and Health division, Tetra Tech teams will provide risk assessments, advanced data analytics and economic analyses to support water quality standard setting.
The teams will also monitor chemical contaminants in fish and microbial pathogens in surface waters to inform prevention and remediation strategies
that reduce risks to human health, and the teams will develop technical guidance and workshops to facilitate community input.
“We look forward to continuing to use our ‘Leading with Science’s approach to assess water quality and reduce the risks of ecological contaminants, supporting a healthy environment and strong U.S. economy,” Roger Argus, Tetra Tech’s chief executive, said in a statement. Argus took over as chief executive in January from longtime chief Dan Batrack, who is now executive chair.
Other contracts underway
For the other two contracts, Tetra Tech was named to a panel of companies able to compete for specific task orders under a government agency’s master contract.
The larger of the two was from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ southeastern office in Mobile, Alabama. It’s a five-year, $49 million master contract to provide architecture and engineering technical services for inland and coastal navigation and water resources infrastructure projects.
Any work that Tetra Tech wins under this master contract would support inland flood risk management, coastal hurricane and storm damage reduction, shallow and deep draft navigation, lock and dam infrastructure, or coastal and riverine ecosystem restoration projects.
The final contract is local. Tetra Tech earlier this month was named to a roster of companies for a five-year, $15 million master contract with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The master contract is for engineering, design and technical services for the agency’s Owens Lake dust mitigation program. Over a century ago, the DWP’s Los Angeles Aqueduct diverted Sierra Nevada runoff from the Owens Valley, causing the natural lake to dry up and leave a dust plain.
